-TʼÉ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "te"

Navajo

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Athabaskan *tʼe (“roast, cook”).

Root

-TʼÉ

1. to roast, cook, fry, broil

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
∅	conversive	S roasts, cooks biʼniitʼees (MOM) yitʼees (CONCL)	S roasts O, cooks O yiʼniiłtʼees yiłtʼees ↳ ałtʼees
∅	adjectival	S is roasted, cooked sitʼé

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
MOM	-tʼees	-tʼé	-tʼis	-tʼis	-tʼees
CONCL	-tʼees	-tʼé	-tʼis	-tʼis	-tʼees
NEUT	-	-tʼé	-	-	-

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to cook:

• -ZIL

to fry:

• -ZIID

to boil, be boiled:

• -BÉÉZH
• -TʼOD
• -GHAAZH

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -TʼÉ (cook)