akʼah agháhwiizídígíí

Etymology

akʼah (“fat, oil”) + agháhwiizídígíí, composed of ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -ghá- (“through”) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + -hi- (seriative) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + + -zííd (momentaneous stem of root -ZIID, “to pour”) + -ígíí (nominalizer), literally “the oil that pushes things streaming through a person one after another”

Noun

akʼah agháhwiizídígíí

  1. castor oil

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 749
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