tééh łį́į́ʼ

Navajo

Alternative forms

tééhłį́į́ʼ

Etymology

tééh (“water”) + łį́į́ʼ (“horse”) (a mythological animal).

Noun

tééh łį́į́ʼ

zebra
- 1943, Robert W. Young, William Morgan, The Navajo Language: The Elements of Navaho Grammar with a Dictionary in Two Parts Containing Basic Vocabularies of Navaho and English‎, U.S. Indian Service, Education Division, OCLC 1230514755, page 188:
  tééh łį́į́ʼ, zebra.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) sea horse

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