haashjin

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Navajo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ha- (climbing up) + -si- (modal) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier)-zhin (imperfective stem of root -ZHĮ́Į́ʼ, “to be black”).

Verb[edit]

haashjin

  1. something black slopes upward; blackness slopes upward

Usage notes[edit]

This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.

Conjugation[edit]

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (si), third person only.

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