Where does “Naʼiiniʼ bá Hooghantsoh” come from?

Naʼiiniʼ bá Hooghantsoh (Navajo) comes from Navajo hooghan, from Navajo ho-, from Navajo hw-.

Naʼiiniʼ bá Hooghantsoh (Navajo): World Trade Center

Definitions

  1. World Trade Center

Ancestry of “Naʼiiniʼ bá Hooghantsoh”, step by step

Naʼiiniʼ bá Hooghantsoh traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Navajo hooghan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Navajohooghandwelling, home, hogan
2Navajoho-indefinite deictic 3rd-person subject pronoun...
3Navajohw-—

via Navajo bá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Navajobáfor him/her/it/them, for his/her/its/their sake;...
2Proto-Athabaskan*-aˑfor
Every word from Navajo hw- →Every word from Navajo ho- →Every word from Navajo hooghan →