-ZO
See also: Appendix:Variations of "zo"
Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *zʊɣ̇ (“to scrape”).
Cognate root found in Ahtna ighizogh (“he scraped it”), Carrier təszoh (“to rake it”).
In Southern Athabaskan, the root evolved to mean “to mark”, “to draw a line or a border”. In Navajo, it is also found in bases related to the four operations.
Root
-ZO
| Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O + ∅ | successive |
S marks |
2. to add, to subtract, to multiply
| Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| O + ∅ | ? |
S adds...
|
Stem set
| Aspect | IMP | PERF | FUT | ITER | OPT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOM | -zóóh | -zo | -zoh | -zoh | -zóóh |
| CONT | -zo | -zo | -zoh | -zoh | -zo |
| SEM | -zoh | -zoh | -zoh | -zoh | -zoh |
| NEU | — | -zo | — | — | — |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.