honiikʼáás

Etymology

ho- (“space, area, things”) + -ni- (thematic) + -yi- (transitional) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -kʼáás (imperfective stem of root -KʼAAZ, “to be cold”).

Verb

honiikʼáás

  1. it (the weather, an area) becomes cool

Conjugation

Paradigm: Transitional, third person only.

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE honiikʼáás
PERFECTIVE honiikʼaaz
FUTURE hodínóokʼas
ITERATIVE náhoniikʼas
OPTATIVE honookʼáás

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 457.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.