honeezkʼaz

Etymology

ho- (“space, area, things”) + -ni- (adjectival) + -z- (si-perfective 3rd person subject prefix, with preceding i lengthened to ee) + -∅- (classifier) + -kʼaz (neuter perfective stem of root -KʼAAZ, “to be cold”).

Verb

honeezkʼaz

  1. an area or the weather is somewhat cold

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (si), third person only.

This verb has no other forms.

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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