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Where does “-NÁ” come from?

-NÁ (Navajo) comes from Proto-Athabaskan na — to live, to move, to work; to capture, to enslave.

-NÁ (Navajo): to move household, to migrate, crowd moves; {|...

Definitions

  1. to move household, to migrate, crowd moves; {|...

Ancestry of “-NÁ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Athabaskannato live, to move, to work; to capture, to enslave
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