tó hahadleeh

Etymology

tó (“water”) + hi- (seriative) + -ha- (“up out”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -leeh (imperfective stem of root -LOʼ, “to act with a rope”). Literally, “water is pulled up with a rope one quantity after another”.

Noun

tó hahadleeh

  1. water well

Derived terms

References

  • Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 706.
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