diyin

See also: dīyīn

Deg Xinag

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *də-yin (“to be a shaman”).

Noun

diyin

medicine person

References

Deg Xinag Learners' Dictionary — Deg Xinag Ałixi Ni'elyoy, Alaska Native Knowledge Network, 2007

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *də-yin (“to be a shaman”), related to *xʸən (“spiritual power, medicine”), whence Navajo sin. By surface analysis, di- (“sanctity”) + -∅- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -yin (neuter imperfective stem of the root -YĮĮD, “to be holy”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɪ̀jɪ̀n/

Verb

diyin

it is sacred
they/she/he are holy

Usage notes

This is a neuter verb and uses only the imperfective stem.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (ni).

imperfective	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	dinishyin	diniigin	dadiniigin
2nd person	diníyin	dinohyin	dadinohyin
3rd person	diyin		dadiyin
4th person	jidiyin		dazhdiyin

Noun

diyin

the holy being, supernatural being
holy

Derived terms

Turkish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdi.jin/
Hyphenation: di‧yin

Verb

diyin

second-person plural imperative of demek

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *də-yin (“to be a shaman”), from *xʸən (“spiritual power, medicine”).

Noun

diyin

medicine man

Related terms

sįh

References

2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.