chʼíhózííd
Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + -◌́- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -zííd (momentaneous stem of root -ZIID, “to grab”)
Verb
[edit]chʼíhózííd
- to grope one's way out horizontally (as out of a doorway)
Conjugation
[edit]Paradigm: Momentaneous (ni/ni)
References
[edit]- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 748