lavaytutuveni

Hopi

Etymology

From lavay-, combining form of lavayi (“word; language; news”) (whence also lavay'aya (“spokesperson”), lavayhonaqa/lalvayhoya "non-stop talker", lavayatampi (“typewriter”)),[1] + tutuveni (“book, written thing”).[1]

Noun

lavaytutuveni

  1. dictionary

References
  1. A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (→ISBN, 1985)

Further reading
  • Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni (1998, →ISBN)
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