adiiʼaah
Navajo
Etymology
ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -di- (inceptive) + -yi- (semelfactive, punctual) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼaah (imperfective stem of root -ʼĄ́, “to handle SRO”)
Verb
adiiʼaah
- the sun starts to move
References
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 13