-CHʼIIZH

See also: -chʼiizh and -chʼíízh

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *čʼʷičʼʷ (“to be rough, chapped”).

Cognate root found in Ahtna atsʼiis (“it is chapped”), Chipewyan dɛts’iz (“it is rough and hard”).

Related to -CHʼÍÍZH (“make a dry rustling sound”).

Root

-CHʼIIZH

1. to abrade, to saw, to file, to scrub

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
di + Ø	adjectival	S is rough dichʼíízh (NEUT)
di + Ø		S hardens, becomes chapped dichʼish (?)
Ø	successive	S saws, files, scrubs yichʼish (MOM) yiʼniichʼiish haidiichʼiish niyíchʼiish yichʼiish (REP?) ↳ achʼiish ↳ ádíchʼiish yiyiichʼish (SEM)

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
MOM / REP	-chʼiish	-chʼiizh	-chʼish	-chʼish	-chʼiish
MOM	-chʼish	-chʼiizh	-chʼish	-chʼish	-chʼish
SEM	-chʼish	-chʼish	-chʼish	-chʼish	-chʼish
NEUTER	-chʼíízh	-	-	-	-

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to saw:

• -ZHÍÍʼ

rough:

• -DĄZH
• -GÓÓN
• -JÉÉL
• -WOL
• -ZHÍÍʼ

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -CHʼIIZH (abrade)