Naakáí Łibáʼí bikéyah
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Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Naakáí Łibáʼí = naakai (“they walk”) + -ii (“nominalizer”) ("the walkers", probably an early attempt to translate exploradores) + łi- (adjectival) + -∅- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -bá (neuter imperfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).