Orayvi
Hopi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally “the place where the roots solidify.”[1]
Noun
[edit]Orayvi (plural Orayvit)
- A person from Oraibi.
- Synonyms: Orayephoya, Orayepsino
Proper noun
[edit]Orayvi
- Oraibi (Hopi village in Arizona, United States)
- Holonym: Hotvela-Paaqavi
- Synonym of Hotvela-Paaqavi
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thomas E. Mails (1997) The Hopi Survival Kit, London: Penguin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 43: “The Hopi migrated to the Black Mesa country of Arizona, with one of their groups moving to a place there named Oraibi, which means “the place where the roots solidify.””
Further reading
[edit]- Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 56
- 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 354