tééh łį́į́ʼ

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, U.S. Indian Service, Education Division, →OCLC, page 188: “tééh łį́į́ʼ, zebra.”
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