beeʼaʼnizhí

Etymology

bee (“by means of it”) + ʼa- (unspecified person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -nizh (repetitive stem of root -NIZH, “to break a slender flexible object”) + -í (nominalizer), literally “by means of it something unspecified is plucked”

Noun

beeʼaʼnizhí

  1. tweezers

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 447
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