alzhin
Navajo
Etymology
ʼa- (unspecified person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -zhin (neuter stem of root -ZHĮ́Į́ʼ, “to be black”).
Verb
alzhin
- something unspecified is black
Derived terms
- dah alzhin (“speck; minute”)
References
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 86