an entry nuevo:
NAVAHO NaVaH Noon-Vav-Hey
Na-VAH____ ___נוה ________[NVH]
ROOTS: The native
NAVAHO or NAVAJO name of this Southwestern American Indian tribe is
Dine (people). People, humans, all children of Adam are אדם A
DahM (Man, Adam – see
DEMOCRAT). A nasal shift takes DM to DN.
The Navaho name comes from the Spanish who called them “Apaches of the valley.”
Other sources emphasize a “plain” or “cultivated field.”
EDK defines נוה NaVaH as pasture, meadow, citing Old South Arabic NVY (meadow, pasture)
And Akkadian nawu (pasture).
After definitions like pasture (II Samuel 7:8), are meaning like “dwelling” or “habitation” from the same root letters.
This added meaning is fitting, since the Spaniards encountered unusually settled, peublo-dwelling tribes in the region.
BRANCHES: Spanish Navajo is also defined as a dale or dell.
The many guessed meaning of the placename Scandinavia have only one thing in common: they lack sound and sense correspondence with the name. See “ENSCONCED” for the first element; this entry offers better theories for an N-V element.
