Diné (Navajo) - English Dictionary:  G, Gh

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- G, Gh -

gad

juniper (herb/medicine plant)
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gah

rabbit
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g4eso

cheese
Navajo used the Spanish word for cheese, which is ‘queso’.
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gha’diit’aahii , ’agha’diit’aahii

lawyer
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-gi ’1t’4

it is like ...
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g7d7

kitty cat
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g7insi

fifteen cents
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g7n7tsoh doot[’izh , gin7tsoh doot[’izh7

blue hawk (a species of bird)
A Bird Being in the Blue World of Navajo mythology.
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gin7tsoh doot[’izh7 , g7n7tsoh doot[’izh

blue hawk (a species of bird)
A Bird Being in the Blue World of Navajo mythology.
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gish

walking stick, cane
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-go

Subordinating and adverbializing suffix attached to the end of a Navajo word.
hai  (winter)   →   haigo  (during the winter)  or  (in the wintertime)
sh9  (summer)   →   sh98go  (during the summer)  or  (in the summertime)
j9  (day)   →   j98go  (during the day)  or  (in the daytime)
’Atiing00 yish1a[go shii[ts3.  (He saw me while walking along the road.)
’Ani’88hii shii[ts32go sits’33’ dah diilwod.  (When the thief saw me he took off on the run.)  or  (Having seen me the thief ran off.)
T[’44d33’ ’ashhoshgo shichid7 shee neest’99’.  (Last night as (while) I slept my car was stolen.)  or  (While sleeping last night my car was stolen.)
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gohw44h , ’ahw44h

coffee
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golch00n

quilt, heavy blanket
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g0ne’ , g0ne’4 , h0ne’ , w0ne’ , w0ne’4 , ’1k0ne’

in there, inside, within [an enclosed space or area], in the interior of an enclosure
h0ne’ , w0ne’    Literally: h0–, w0– (forms adverbs) + –ne’ (behind, inside)
Shizh4’4 w0ne’ dah sid1.  (My father is sitting inside.)
W0ne’4 (W0ne’) doo haz’32 da.  (There is no room inside.)
kin g0ne’  (inside the house)
’ajaayi’ g0ne’  (inside the ear)
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g0ne’4 , g0ne’ , h0ne’ , w0ne’ , w0ne’4 , ’1k0ne’

in there, inside, within [an enclosed space or area], in the interior of an enclosure
h0ne’ , w0ne’    Literally: h0–, w0– (forms adverbs) + –ne’ (behind, inside)
Shizh4’4 w0ne’ dah sid1.  (My father is sitting inside.)
W0ne’4 (W0ne’) doo haz’32 da.  (There is no room inside.)
kin g0ne’  (inside the house)
’ajaayi’ g0ne’  (inside the ear)
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-g00

movement toward, along, alongside, around, among.   An enclitic particle suffix attached to the end of a noun that causes the word to move toward, along, alongside, around, or among, a specific place.
’)lta’g00 d4y1.  (I am going to school.)  or  (I am on my way to school.)
Na’n7zhoozh7g00 diit’ash.  (Let us go to Gallup.)
T1b22hg00 yig11l.  (He is walking along the shore.)
’Atiing00 yish11[.  (I am walking along the road.)
Dzi[g00 naash1.  (I am walking around in the mountains.)
Naad33’ bitahg00 naash1.  (I am walking around in (among) the corn.)
Dzi[ bik11’g00 shi[ na’at’a’.  (I am riding around above the mountain (in a plane).)
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