béłheeł

Etymology

bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -í- (“against, reaching”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -yeeł (momentaneous stem of root -YÉÉL, “to darken”).

Verb

béłheeł

  1. it becomes darkened, obscured (said of the moon)
    ooljééʼ ałnííʼ béłheeł
    there comes to be a half moon (Literally, “half the moon becomes obscured”)

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE béłheeł
PERFECTIVE bééłhééł

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 697
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