yitʼįįh

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Navajo[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier)-ʼįįh (imperfective stem of root -ʼĮĮD, “to be wealthy”)

Classifier is sometimes thematized and reanalyzed as stem initial (-tʼįįh).

Verb[edit]

yitʼįįh

  1. he/she is becoming wealthy in it
Usage notes[edit]

Some speakers use perfective forms corresponding to a classifier , given here as perfective¹. Other speakers use perfective forms corresponding to a classifier d, given here as perfective².

Conjugation[edit]

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/si).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person yishtʼįįh yiitʼįįh deiitʼįįh
2nd person nitʼįįh wohtʼįįh daahtʼįįh
3rd person yitʼįįh deitʼįįh
4th person jitʼįįh dajitʼįįh
PERFECTIVE¹ singular duoplural plural
1st person sétʼįįd siitʼįįd dasiitʼįįd
2nd person sínítʼįįd sootʼįįd dasootʼįįd
3rd person yiztʼįįd deiztʼįįd
4th person jiztʼįįd dajiztʼįįd
PERFECTIVE² singular duoplural plural
1st person sistʼįįd siitʼįįd dasiitʼįįd
2nd person sínítʼįįd soohtʼįįd dasoohtʼįįd
3rd person
4th person jistʼįįd dajistʼįįd
FUTURE singular duoplural plural
1st person deeshtʼįįł diitʼįįł dadiitʼįįł
2nd person díítʼįįł doohtʼįįł dadoohtʼįįł
3rd person yidootʼįįł deidootʼįįł
4th person jidootʼįįł dazhdootʼįįł
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier)-ʼįįh (imperfective stem of root -ʼĮĮD, “to make”).

Verb[edit]

yitʼįįh

  1. (with bizééʼ) he/she/it is causing his/her death
Conjugation[edit]

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/si).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person yishtʼįįh yiitʼįįh deiitʼįįh
2nd person nitʼįįh wohtʼįįh daahtʼįįh
3rd person yitʼįįh
4th person jitʼįįh dajitʼįįh
PERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person sistʼįįd siitʼįįd dasiitʼįįd
2nd person sínítʼįįd soohtʼįįd dasoohtʼįįd
3rd person
4th person jistʼįįd dajistʼįįd
FUTURE singular duoplural plural
1st person deeshtʼįįł diitʼįįł dadiitʼįįł
2nd person díítʼįįł doohtʼįįł dadoohtʼįįł
3rd person
4th person jidootʼįįł dazhdootʼįįł