tó bee haaltʼoodí
Navajo
Etymology
tó (“water”) + bee (“by means of it”) + haaltʼood (“it is sucked out”) + -í (nominalizer)
Noun
References
- Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 706.