biʼdidlid

Etymology

bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -di- (“fire”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier, passive) + -lid (durative imperfective stem of root -LID, “to burn”).

Verb

biʼdidlid

  1. agentive passive of yidiłid (“something is being burned”)

Conjugation

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

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE biʼdidlid
PERFECTIVE biʼdoodlid

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 371
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