bikʼihoozííd

Etymology

bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -kʼi- (“on top of”) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + -oo- (yi-perfective 3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -zííd (continuative stem of root -ZIID, “to pour”)

Verb

bikʼihoozííd

  1. it is covered up by things that have been raked over it

Conjugation

Paradigm: Continuative (∅/∅), third person only

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE bikʼihoozííd
PERFECTIVE bikʼihooziid

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 750
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