hodichin

Navajo

Etymology

ho- (“space, area, things”) + dichin (“hunger”)

Noun

hodichin

1. famine, starvation

See also

• dichin

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 402.