nahałnííh

Etymology

na- (atelic, circuital) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -nííh (continuative stem of root -NIIʼ, “a wave passes”)

Verb

nahałnííh

  1. there is an epidemic of disease

Conjugation

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

References

  • Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 526.
  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 457
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