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Navajo

See also: navajo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

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Noun

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Navajo (plural Navajo or Navajos or Navajoes)

  1. A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
    Synonym: (derogatory) Tavasuh
    • 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN‎[1]:
      As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII.

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Navajo

  1. An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).
  2. An Amerindian people who traditionally speak the Navajo language.
    • 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN‎[2]:
      One of the last remaining members of the Navajo Code Talkers, who used their difficult-to-learn language to form an indecipherable code that helped the Allies win World War II, has died.

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