HARRINGTON] PLACE-NAMES 363 



[23:15] Nambe P'aho.iilcv:aje, P'abodi 'height of the roundish hill of 

 the yucca' 'roundish hill of the yucca' (p'a yucca 'Yucca bac- 

 cata'; bo^/' 'roundish hilT of large size; hivaje 'height'). 



The ends of T'qntehraje [23:16] tapering- toward the south and 

 east are called thus. See [23:16]. 



[23:16] Nambe 7"gwi!<'/«v/jd 'sun dwelling-place height' (<"g??y 'sun'; 

 ift' 'dwelling-place' 'house'; Iwaje 'height') For the name cf. 

 T'qnt'alcwaje [17:9]. The name is peculiar and poetic. 



This great bare hill has a high rounded point to the northwest. 

 To the south and east it runs out into I''aho.'!kiraje [23:15]. See 

 also [23:17]. 



[23:17] Xambe T'qntebu'^u 'sun dwelling-place corner' {T'qiite-, see 

 [23:16J; biCu 'large low roundisii place'). 



This large dry corner is west of and sheltered bv [23:1<)], from 

 wiiic'li it takes its name. 



[23:18] Nambe A7.««y/te'« ' gentle slope where the prairie-dogs move 

 al)out' {kua^ said to be an old form equivalent to hi 'prairie- 

 dog', just as one hears in modern Tewa both pe and peJa applied 

 to what is apparently but one species of rodents, resembling kan- 

 garoo rats; ]i 'to moveabout,at, orin a place'; tiCa 'gentle slope'). 

 Praii-ie-dogs actually live at the place. The prairie a short dis- 

 tance east of Naml)e Pueblo is called thus. Cf. [23:2'2]. 



[23:10] Nambe Fihuhuh,, see [24:39]. 



[23:i'0] Nambe Tajehi^v, see [24:43]. 



[23:21] Nambe Fawopiyf, see [24:44]. 



[23 :22] Nambe Woie ' high plain ' (unanalyzable). 



The name refers to a large, level, barren area exceeding a mile 

 square. 



[23:23] 'Na.mhe Psenj'uqwmh:(bo^Piyj'ku''u 'arroyo by the round hills 

 of the snaky mountain-mahogany thickets', referring to [23:24] 

 {PeenfuqwsekaboJi, see [23:24|; '^j^y locative and adjective-form- 

 ing postfix; /I'li'u 'large groove' 'arroyo'). 



This arroyo runs down between the little hills [23:24] and the 

 height [23:16]. 



[23 :24] Nambe P^nfuqwielcabfui ' the round hills of the snaky moun- 

 tain-mahogany thickets' {}>'-fnfu 'snake'; qw^ 'mountain mahog- 

 any' 'Cercocarpus parvifolius'; 1:^?, 'denseness' 'dense' "forest' 

 'thicket'; bo<ii 'large roundish pile' 'round hill'). 

 These hills give the name to the arroyo [23:23]. 



[23:25] (1) Nambe ^ (Mpmve 'duck creek' {'obi 'duck'; pows 'water' 

 'creek' <f>o 'water', we locative). 



(2) Tesuque Kidqnihi/'n 'pointed rock arroyo', referring to 

 [23:37] {Kxtq''^-, see [23:37]; tii a Tesuque form of 'iyy locative 



