tééh łį́į́ʼ

Navajo

Alternative forms

• tééhłį́į́ʼ

Etymology

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

Noun

tééh łį́į́ʼ

1. zebra
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) sea horse

References

• Robert W. Young, William Morgan (1943) The Navajo Language: The Elements of Navaho Grammar with a Dictionary in Two Parts Containing Basic Vocabularies of Navaho and English‎^[1], U.S. Indian Service, Education Division, →OCLC, page 188: “tééh łį́į́ʼ, zebra.”