adiilchʼił

Etymology

ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -di- (“fire”) + -yi- (semelfactive, punctual) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -chʼił (imperfective stem of root -CHʼIL, “to lightning”)

Verb

adiilchʼił

  1. thunder crashes
  2. there is a bolt of lighting

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 108
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