N: Haida - English

na
house, dwelling, building, hut, cabin, shack, shelter, establishment

náa
- one's den, burrow
- one's house, dwelling, building, hut, shack, cabin, shelter, establishment
- to dwell, reside, live somewhere
  • náagang
  • náagan
  • náagaan
Dáakw guu náa us?
Are you living there?

náat
one's sister's child, one's sister's daughter's child
  • náad
  • hal náat

náadada
to have O as one's sister's child, sister's daughter's child

náadang
one's own sister's child, one's own sister's daughter's child

náad da'a
to have a sister's child, sister's daughter's child

náag sk'agíid
beams forming the top edge of a stockade

náa gut'áang
to be homesick

náaguusd
from inside (a house)

náaguusii
the inner part, the inside of something

náaj
nuts

náaj k'u k'agwdáangwaay
nutcracker

náak'
sea otter pelt

náan
one's grandmother
  • hal náan
  • náanii (term of address)

náanaa
- grandmother!
- to be a grandmother (to X)

náanang
one's own grandmother

náanda
to have O as one's grandmother

náan da'a
to have a grandmother

náaneehl
to become a grandmother

náang
- one's own den, burrow
- playing, game, drama
- to play
  • náanggang
  • náanggan
  • náangaan
Díi git’aláng náang’waang.
My children are playing.

naangáay
a camp (at some location)

náanggaay
player (in a game)

náang náay
theater

náanslang
to tease, make fun of, mock X (physically)

náat'aa
to be a sister's child, sister's daughter's child (to X)

náat'aay
sister's child! sister's daughter's child!

náaxiin
Chilkat blanket

náay íngkwsii
roof
  • náay ínggwsii
  • náay únksii

náay ka’án
ceiling
  • naáy ka'án

náay k’ulangáay
outside wall, wall of a building
  • náay k'ulangáay

náay káahlii
inside wall or inside of house
  • náay káahlii

náay skusál
house frame

náay stl'áng
floor

náay xángsii
porch
  • náay xánsii

náay xíilaas
smokehole

náa'ang
one's own house, dwelling, building, hut, shack, cabin, shelter, establishment

nagáa
to be a house

nágtaay
necktie

nagáa
one's feces

nagáang
one's own feces

naG̱anáats'
brass

naG̱ats'íi
fox

na káahlii hlk'unáanwaay
scrubbrush

na káahlii kugíinaay
wallpaper

na k'áasal
a house site (former or planned)

na k'íw
the front yard of a house

nang
someone, one (of those) (singular person)

nangáa
- to be cheap, inexpensive
- to have no respect for, have a low opinion of, not think well of X
  • nangáagang
  • nangáagan
  • nangáagaan
Díi an hal nangáagang.
She thinks low of me.

nang áanaa tl'áa
neighbor

nángan
anyone, each one

nangéehl
to get cheaper, go down in price, become less expensive

nang gaa xajúu
child

nang Hlanggadáa
a Tlingit

nang íihlangaa
man

nang íitl'aagdáa
chief

nang jáadaa
woman, girl

nang Kanáagaa
a Hawaiian

nang k'íijguwaa
prisoner

nang sgíndaa
skipper

nang sgáagaa
Indian doctor, shaman

nang skamdáa
trapper

nang st'awáa
witch

nang t'áangad
steersman

nánts'uhldaa
to get mad, angry

nánts'uldang
to be crabby, irritable, mad, angry, have a short temper

nasáal
cloth shawl

nasáang
one's antlers, horns

nasáangaa
to have antlers, horns
  • nasáandaa
  • nasáangaay
  • nasáangaagang
  • nasáangaagan
  • nasáangaagaan
K’áadaay ’láangaa nasáangaagang.
His deer has antlers.

nasáangaang
one's own antlers, horns

na tlaawhláa 'la'áay
carpenter

na tlaawhláa 'la'áaygaa
to be a carpenter

na tl'ajúu
lean-to shelter made of cedar bark or a sail stretched over a frame

nats'áa
to be long-lived, be tough and strong into old age
  • nats'a
  • nats'áang
  • nats'gán
  • nats'áayaan
Hal k’ayáas k’yáan hal nats’áang.
She is old but long-lived.

nats'áa xiláay
medicine for long life

na ts'ée'ii
members of a household

na ún
roof of a house

na ún tl'ajuuyáay
peak of a roof

na'áang
to live, dwell, reside (pl)

na 'la'áay
house chief

na 'la'áaygaa
to be house chief

na 'wíi tl'ajuwáay
lean-to addition to a house, a covered porch

neegúun
mountain cranberry, neigoonberry

níihl
to drink O
  • nílgang
  • nílgan
  • nyáalaan
Gántl hl nílgang.
I’m drinking water.

níijaangw
mask
  • níijaangwaay

níijang
to draw, copy, imitate, take a picture of X1 (on X2)
  • níijanggang
  • níijanggan
  • níijaangaan
Níijaangwaayk ’láangaa hl níijanggang.
I’m copying his mask.

níijangaay
a picture, photograph, map of something

núu
octopus
  • núuwaay

núud
during, in the time of

nuudáa
to be many, a bunch, crowd, pile

núugd
blue grouse

núu ín
an octopus's skin

núu kwa'áay
rock that an octopus lives under

núusg
wolverine

núut'gung
to hunt or hook octopus

núut'gwaangw
octopus stick, octopus hook

nuwál ka'án
the inside surface of one's crotch

nuwúl
one's perineum, the space between one's legs, the space between the roots of a tree

nuwuláng
one's own perineum, the space between one's own legs