chʼékaad

Etymology

chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -∅- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -kaad (momentaneous stem of root -KAAD, “a profusion of objects or an open container falls”)

Verb

chʼékaad

  1. it (an open container) comes flying horizontally out

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (ni/ni)

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE chʼékaad
PERFECTIVE chʼíníkaad

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 302
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