haałkʼáás

Etymology

ha- (“up out”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -kʼáás (imperfective stem of root -KʼAAZ, “to be cold”).

Verb

haałkʼáás

  1. [a cold draft comes up and out (as from a cellar or hole)

Conjugation

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

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE haałkʼáás
PERFECTIVE hááłkʼaaz

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 339
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