chʼíheetłeeh

Etymology

chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -hi- (seriative) + -ee- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tłeeh (momentaneous stem of root -TŁÉÉʼ, “to handle MM”)

Verb

chʼíheetłeeh

  1. it hops out horizontally

Conjugation

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

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE chʼíheetłeeh
PERFECTIVE chʼéheetłééʼ

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 567
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