Öngtupqa
Hopi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]öönga (“salt”) + tupqa (“canyon”)
Proper noun
[edit]Öngtupqa
- The Grand Canyon.
References
[edit]- Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 55
- Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 362