chʼíideeʼaah

Etymology

chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -di- (“relinquish”) + -ee- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼaah (imperfective stem of root -ʼĄ́, “to handle SRO”)

Verb

chʼíideeʼaah

  1. to make an appropriation of funds (as a legislature)

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (ni/ni)

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 14
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