yółdon
Navajo
Etymology
ó- (“directed at”, combining form of yíní- in the 3rd person) + -ł- (classifier) + -don (repetitive stem of root -DON, “to explode”)
Verb
yółdon
- to shoot at it (multiple times)
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 767.
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 147