tsáskʼeh bikʼínáltihí

Etymology

tsáskʼeh (“bed”) + bikʼínáltih 'it is repeatedly covered by it,' from bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -kʼí- (“onto”) + -ná- (iterative) + -l- (classifier) + -tih (iterative stem of root -TIʼ, “to spread a flat flexible object”) + -í (nominalizer)

Noun

tsáskʼeh bikʼínáltihí

  1. bedsheet

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 728.
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