-TSʼIL
Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *kʸʼəl (“to rip, tear, split”).
The noun atsʼiil (“fragment”) is derived from this root.
Root
-TSʼIL
| Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ∅ | successive |
S breaks
|
S breaks O
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| ∅ | adjectival |
S is broken
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Stem set
| Aspect | Imperfective | Perfective | Future | Iterative | Optative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REP / DUR | -tsʼil | -tsʼil | -tsʼił | -tsʼił | -tsʼil |
| Semelfactive | -tsʼił | -tsʼil | -tsʼił | -tsʼił | -tsʼił |
| Neuter | — | -tsʼil | — | — | — |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Derived terms
References
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 635