ahidiniitsxah

Etymology

ʼah- (reciprocal) + -di- (“oral”) + ni- + yi- (semelfactive, punctual) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -tsaʼ (continuative stem of root -TSAʼ, “to grasp with teeth”), with the infix -x-.

Verb

ahidiniitsxah

  1. they sink their teeth into one another and hang on

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 591
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