eʼelyaa

Navajo

Etymology

Simple-passive perfective form with unspecified-person indirect-object of yeʼelééh (“to copy it, to duplicate it”, literally “to make something unspecified at it”).

Literal approximation: “the making of something unspecified was done at something unspecified”, “something unspecified was copied”.

Noun

eʼelyaa

1. picture, photograph, copy, replica, image, photocopy

Verb

eʼelyaa

1. Simple-passive perfective form with unspecified-person indirect-object of yeʼelééh (“to copy it, to duplicate it”).