yiʼniiłííd
Navajo
Etymology
bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ʼnii- (“inchoative”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -lííd (momentaneous stem of root -LID, “to burn”)
Verb
yiʼniiłííd
- he/she starts to burn it
Conjugation
Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/∅)
References
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 370