yöngösona

Hopi

Etymology

yöngö (“prickly pear”) +‎ -sona (“craver”)

Noun

yöngösona (plural yöngösosont)

1. turtle, tortoise
2. tortoise-shell rattle

Derived terms

• yöngösonaʼyma
• yöngösonhoya
• yöngösonlawu
• yöngösonma
• yöngösonmaqma
• yöngösonmaqto
• yöngösonnuma
• yöngösonta
• yöngösònta

 

References

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 111
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 788