Orayvi

Hopi

Etymology

Literally “the place where the roots solidify.”[1]

Noun

Orayvi (plural Orayvit)

A person from Oraibi.
Synonyms: Orayephoya, Orayepsino

Proper noun

Orayvi

Oraibi (Hopi village in Arizona, United States)
Holonym: Hotvela-Paaqavi
Synonym of Hotvela-Paaqavi

Derived terms

Orayephoya
orayepmatsiwta
Orayepsino
orayeptuqayta
Orayeptuwi
orayepʼeway

Descendants

→ English: Oraibi, Orayvi

References

Thomas E. Mails (1997) The Hopi Survival Kit, London: Penguin Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 43: “The Hopi migrated to the Black Mesa country of Arizona, with one of their groups moving to a place there named Oraibi, which means “the place where the roots solidify.””

Further reading

Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 56
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 354

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