What is hopie?

1 : a member of an American Indian people of northeastern Arizona.

How do you say Grandpa in Hopi?

“Kwa’a, kwakwha’ um nuy siiva maqa”: Speaking Hopi to Grandpa.

How do you say water in Hopi?

Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language, related to other Southwestern languages like Yaqui and O’odham….Hopi Word Set.

English (Français) Hopi words
Water (Eau) Kuuyi

What is the Hopi word for coyote?

Vocabulary / Dictionary

coyote tsushki suski
cricket shtitishtiga k’ets’iłdo
crow sh’uta k’walashi
dawn neishbitraatya-gu dek’ohadi
December Nachəweena Daaw’aatra Ik’opbu

What do the Hopi believe?

The Hopi religion is very complex. It has a very developed belief system with many gods and spirits; this includes Earth Mother, Sky Father, the Sun, the Moon, kachinas (invisible spirits of life), and Masaw (the world’s guardian spirit).

What does it mean to say I Love you in Hopi?

“I love you” in Hopi is: “nu’ umi unangwa’ta”. In Inuktitut, I love you is “ asavakkit ” ᓇᒡᓕᒋᕙᒋᑦ. There are about 40,000 people who speak that language. It is in the Eskimo-Aleut language family. Languages in this family are spoken by over 100,000 people.

How is the Hopi language related to other languages?

Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language, related to other languages like Shoshone and Yaqui. We have included twenty basic Hopi words here, to compare with related American Indian languages. You can find more Hopi words in our online picture glossaries.

What does Ayoo mean in the Hopi language?

Ayóóʼáyóʼní means he/she/it loves him/her/it. There are duals and plurals and it all affects how the word sounds. One of the neighboring people are the Hopi. They have lived near each other for hundreds of years. But the languages are utterly different.

Is there a noun for Love in Navajo?

That is: ayóo (“very”) + á- (“thus”) + ni- (2nd-person object prefix) + yíní- (“directed at”) + sh- (1st-person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -ní (neuter imperfective stem of -NIID (“to feel, want, desire, love”). Navajo is a verb based language and there isn’t really a noun for love.