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Navajo
Etymology
From the root root -ʼAʼ, “to send, to order”), with the nominalizing suffix -í.
Noun
naalʼaʼí
- servant, orderly, lackey
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 582.