-DÁÁZ
Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *daːʼz ~ *das (“to be heavy”).[1] Compare Chipewyan yekʼéghíłdath (“it is coming down heavy on him”) and Navajo das (“weight”).
In active intransitive bases this root describes the movement of a mass of plural objects. In neuter adjectival and comparative bases it retains the original meaning “to be heavy”.
Root
-DÁÁZ
- 1. a mass of plural objects (i.e., snowflakes, dirt particles, ...) moves
| Theme | Category | Bases | Seriative bases (hi) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ł | motion | S (a mass) moves, falls, slides, ...
|
particles move one after the other
|
- 2. to be heavy
| Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ni + ∅ | adjectival | S is heavy | |||||
| á + ni + ł | adjectival | S is comparatively heavy
|
Stem set
| Aspect | Imperfective | Perfective | Future | Iterative | Optative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOM/CON | -daas | -dááz | -das | -das | -daas |
| Neuter | -daaz | — | — | — | — |
| Neuter comparative | -dáás | — | — | — | — |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Synonyms
to be heavy:
Motion verbs:
- -TĮ́ (AnO moves)
- -NIIʼ (move along)
- -TŁÉÉʼ (MM moves)
- -JOOL (NCM moves)
- -DÉÉL (SFO moves)
- -ZĄ́ (crowd moves)
- -TEEL (herd moves)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Navajo terms belonging to the root -DÁÁZ (heavy)
Navajo terms belonging to the root -DÁÁZ (mass moves)
References
- ^ Sharon Hargus; Keren Rice (2005), Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 15