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The word Navajo does not come from Spanish. The Spanish learned it in the middle 1500s when they were asking Pueblo Tewa speakers names of the the different Apache related groups. They were told the Dine' were the "Apache of the wide or river bottom fields". "Navahu'u" is Tewa for "farm fields in a valley". Navajo is how the Spanish then spelled it.
The Navajo language is related to other Apache languages about the same as Italian is to Spanish or Portuguese. The word Apache is thought to come from the Zuni language word for "enemy" or "stranger"
Some other Apache groups were the Jicarilla ("little basket") and Mescalero ( mescal was a food staple) Apache.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe word "Navajo" is not from the Navajo language. Thier name for themselves is Dine' (di -ne? di as in did and ne as in neigh but shorter and with rising tone like a question). It means "people". The language is Dine' Bizaad. "People's language" "bi" is a possessive. The term Navajo comes from the spanish Apachu de Nabajo in the 1620's for the people in the Chama valley. It means apahce with the or of the big fields. They grew a lot of corn unlike other apache cousin groups who grew less. The term "apache" may come from zuni or yavapai. Navajo may come from Tewa "navahu’u" meaning farms fields in the valley.
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What does the word Danae mean in the Navajo language?
a navajo
What does the Navajo word bilagaana mean?
The Navajo word, "Bilaganaana" means White Man of White person.
What do the Navajo word keno sabe mean?
It is not Navajo, it is Potawatomi. The modern spelling is "gimoozaabi", and it means "faithful friend" in Potawatomi.
What is the Navajo word for boy?
The Navajo word for boy is Ashkii, and boys is Ashiiké.
Who gave the Navajo tribe their name Navajo?
Navajo comes from Tewa to spanish to english. It means " ones farming in valley fields".
What does the word Danae mean in the Navajo language?
a navajo
What does bilagaanas mean in Navajo?
Bilagáana in Navajo means- white people. It is said to come from the Spanish word Americano. It is often used like "gringo" in meaning but it aslo just means Anglo (in the Southwest- not Spanish speaking and not American Indian).
What does la Navajo mean in spanish?
Contrary to some beliefs, it does Not mean raider or knife or anything else in Spanish. It comes from a Tewa Indian word (navahu or navahu'u - nava-"planted fields" hu- "mouths of canyons") for the Navajo people that the Spanish learned in the 1540s. It means fields in a river valley. They were called Apache de Navajo, "the Apache type people who farm feilds in river bottoms". Apache comes from a Zuni word for "enemies"
What does the Navajo word bilagaana mean?
The Navajo word, "Bilaganaana" means White Man of White person.
What does wash te mean in Navajo?
Nothing, since washte is not a Navajo word. It is a Lakota word meaning "good".
What does biligaana mean?
Biligaana is the Navajo word for "white man".
What do the Navajo word keno sabe mean?
It is not Navajo, it is Potawatomi. The modern spelling is "gimoozaabi", and it means "faithful friend" in Potawatomi.
What does the navajho word tatanka mean?
Tatanka is a Navajo word that means buffalo if you have seen the great movie dancing with wolves it is said alot between the Navajo and the cowboys
What does the word zorro mean in Spanish?
It is the Spanish word for "fox".
What does the Spanish word afuras mean?
afuras is not a spanish word.
What does the Spanish word gaka mean?
gaka is not a Spanish word
What does the Spanish word coll mean?
"Coll" is not a Spanish word.
