Hosteen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Navajo hastiin.

Proper noun

Hosteen

1. A title used for a Navajo, Sir, Mister.
   • 1980, Tony Hillerman, People of Darkness, O. Penzler Books, published 1994:

     His uncle, the brother of his mother, was among the most prominent of these. He was Hosteen Frank Sam Nakai, who performed the Night Chant and the Enemy Way and key parts of several other curing ceremonials, and who sometimes taught ceremonialism at the Navajo Community College at Rough Rock.

2. A male given name from Navajo
3. A surname from Navajo.

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