náá-

• nááná-

Related to naaki (“two”).

• IPA^(key): /nɑ́ː-/

náá-

2. Marks the semeliterative aspect, which indicates that the action of a verb is repeated one time.

   taah náánáshtééh

   "I'm putting it in the water again" (from taah (“into the water”) + náánáshtééh, equivalent to náá- (semeliterative) + sh- (“I”) + -tééh (iterative stem of -TĮ́, "to handle an animate object")

3. (applied to nouns) some more, some other

   ‎náá- + ‎daadził (“mountains”) → ‎náádaadził (“some more/some other mountains”)

• The variant nááná is used before the prefixes sh-, yi-, -ii(d), (o)oh, s-, z-, and ó-.

• 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 60.