Where does “shá bikʼehgo” come from?

shá bikʼehgo (Navajo) comes from Navajo shá, from Proto-Athabaskan *šʷaˑ — sun.

shá bikʼehgo (Navajo): clockwise

Definitions

  1. clockwise

Ancestry of “shá bikʼehgo”, step by step

shá bikʼehgo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Navajo shá

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Navajosháfor me
2Proto-Athabaskan*šʷaˑsun

via Navajo kʼehgo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Navajokʼehgoin accordance with; after the fashion of, in the...
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