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yałtiʼbeeʼizhi

noun

LanguageWestern Apache (United States)

Meaning
  1. 'speaking with names', a means of communicating in which the speaker uses place names for their evocative qualities in order to relay messages poetically and somewhat surreptitiously
  2. 'speaking with names'
  3. A poetic way of communicating where place names are used to share messages or evoke certain qualities.
Examples

Yałtiʼbeeʼizhi bee yáłtiʼ.

He is speaking using the 'speaking with names' method.

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteThis refers to a culturally specific form of communication.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.