diné

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dine"

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

diné (feminine dinée, masculine plural dinés, feminine plural dinées)

  1. past participle of diner

Anagrams

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *dəneˑ,[1] equivalent to di- (thematic prefix relating to action performed with the arms and legs) +‎ -né (“man, person”, stem noun). Compare Chipewyan dëné, Dogrib done, Tsuut'ina dìná.

Despite formal similarity, likely unrelated to Ket дэʼӈ (dɛˀŋ, “people”).[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɪ̀nɛ́/

Noun

diné (plural dineʼé, distributive plural dadineʼé)

  1. person
  2. man
  3. the people
  4. Navajo

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 280
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward (2024) “footnote 23”, in The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia: Language Families (The World of Linguistics [WOL]; 10.1)‎[1], volume 1, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 401
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