Where does “Diné bizaadísh dinitsʼaʼ” come from?

Diné bizaadísh dinitsʼaʼ (Navajo) comes from Navajo Diné, from Navajo di-, from Navajo -CHIIʼ, from Proto-Athabaskan čig — to be red ochre.

Diné bizaadísh dinitsʼaʼ (Navajo): do you speak Navajo?

Definitions

  1. do you speak Navajo?

Ancestry of “Diné bizaadísh dinitsʼaʼ”, step by step

Diné bizaadísh dinitsʼaʼ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Navajo Diné

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1NavajoDinéAlternative form of diné; Navajo
2Navajodi-fire, near or into it; Young and Morgan identify...
3Navajo-CHIIʼred; {| style="margin-bottom:.1em;...
4Proto-Athabaskančigto be red ochre

via Navajo bizaad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Navajobizaadhis words, speech, language
2Navajosaadword; language; speech
3Proto-Athabaskan*-za̓ˑdmouth
Every word from Proto-Athabaskan čig →Every word from Navajo di- →Every word from Navajo Diné →