{"id":853,"date":"2012-08-02T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-08-02T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:35:45","slug":"olympics-navajo-language-word-of-the-day-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/olympics-navajo-language-word-of-the-day-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics &#8211; Navajo Language Word of the Day Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Terry Teller (daybreakwarrior)<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/daybreakwarrior\/featured<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E25W-Xw01SA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Navajo Word of the Day is &#8220;Olympics&#8221;.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe word in Navajo for olympics is &#8220;Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h.&#8221; To use this word in Navajo, you would say, &#8220;Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed \u00e9\u00ed London hooly\u00e9edi baa na&#8217;aldeeh.&#8221; This means, &#8220;The Olympics are being held in London.&#8221; Breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed: The Olympics<br \/>\n\u00c9\u00ed: it<br \/>\nLondon hooly\u00e9edi: at the place called London<br \/>\nBaa na&#8217;aldeeh: it is being held<\/p>\n<p>Since I hadn&#8217;t been updating my Navajo Words of the Day like I should, I added a new word today, &#8220;Alha&#8217;dik\u00e1\u00e1h,&#8221; which means, &#8220;a lot of people racing side by side.&#8221; This is more of a term for a foot or running race, but it can also be used for other events. For example:<\/p>\n<p>Dzi&#8217;iz\u00ed (bike) Bee (by means of it) Alha&#8217;dik\u00e1\u00e1h: Competitive Cycling<br \/>\nNa&#8217;alk\u00f3\u00f3?&#8217; (swimming) Yee (by means of it) Alha&#8217;dik\u00e1\u00e1h: Competitive Swimming<\/p>\n<p>Here are different ways you can use these words in sentences:<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lochte \u00e9\u00ed Na&#8217;alk\u00f3\u00f3&#8217; Yee Alha&#8217;dik\u00e1\u00e1h yee atah.<br \/>\nRyan Lochte is competing in the swimming event.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Phinney \u00e9\u00ed Dzi&#8217;iz\u00ed Bee Alha&#8217;dik\u00e1\u00e1h yee atah.<br \/>\nTaylor Phinney is competing in the cycling event.<\/p>\n<p>Again, just a few words to share since the Summer Olympics are currently being held! Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Terry Teller (daybreakwarrior) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/daybreakwarrior\/featured The Navajo Word of the Day is &#8220;Olympics&#8221;. The word in Navajo for olympics is &#8220;Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h.&#8221; To use this word in Navajo, you would say, &#8220;Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed \u00e9\u00ed London hooly\u00e9edi baa na&#8217;aldeeh.&#8221; This means, &#8220;The Olympics are being held in London.&#8221; Breakdown: Ahaa Honin\u00e9\u00e9h\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed: The Olympics \u00c9\u00ed: it London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[207,102,103,111,1076,206,99,208],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-language","tag-cycling","tag-dine","tag-language","tag-native-american","tag-navajo","tag-olympics","tag-rez","tag-swimming","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}