-KĄĄD

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qanʸ (“to be sweet, to taste good”).

Cognate root found in Ahtna ilkaanʼ (“it became tasty”).

Root

-KĄĄD

  1. to sweeten

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
O + ł	?	S sweetens O yiłkąąh (MOM) S makes corn cake ałkąąh iʼniiłkąąh
łi + Ø	adjectival	S is sweet łikan (NEUT)

  2. to be quite skilled at

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
ho + di + ł	adjectival	S gets skilled hodiłkąąd (perf.) hodiłkan (NEUT)

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
MOM / CONCL	-kąąh	-kąąd	-kąął	-kąąh	-kąął
NEUT	-kan	-	-	-	-

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to be skilled:

• -CHĄ́Ą́ʼ

 

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -KĄĄD (sweet)