bikʼídahaltaał

Etymology

bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -kʼí- (“straight”) + -da- (plural) + -hi- (seriative) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -taał (momentaneous stem of root -TÁÁL, “to pop”)

Verb

bikʼídahaltaał

  1. they spit or pop out of it one after another (as hot coals from a fire)

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/si)

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE bikʼídahaltaał
PERFECTIVE bikʼídahaastaał

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 487
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