different between navajo vs duoplural

Finnish

Noun

navajo

1. The Navajo language.

Declension

Anagrams

• vajoan, vanoja

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.va.?o/

Noun

navajo m (uncountable)

1. Navajo (language)

Further reading

• “navajo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /na?va.?u/

Noun

navajo m, f (plural navajos or navajo)

1. one of the Navajo (indigenous people of southwestern United States)

Noun

navajo m (uncountable)

1. Navajo (native language of the Navajo people)

Adjective

navajo (plural navajo, comparable)

1. relating or belonging to the Navajo people
2. relating to the Navajo language

Spanish

Etymology

From Tewa navahu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?baxo/, [na???a.xo]

Adjective

navajo (feminine navaja, masculine plural navajos, feminine plural navajas)

1. Navajo

Noun

navajo m (plural navajos, feminine navaja, feminine plural navajas)

1. Navajo

English

Etymology

duo- +? plural

Adjective

duoplural (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.

Noun

duoplural (plural duoplurals)

1. (linguistics, grammar) Duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something.

   Languages that employ the duoplural include Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).

See also

• dual
• paucal
• plural
• quadral
• singular
• singulative
• trial
• unal

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