chʼéshį́į́h

Etymology

chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -shį́į́h (momentaneous imperfective stem of root -ZHĮ́, “summer passes”).

Verb

chʼéshį́į́h

  1. it becomes summer, summer comes

Conjugation

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

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE chʼéshį́į́h
PERFECTIVE chʼíníshį́

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 774
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