adishah

Navajo edit

Etymology edit

ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -di- (thematic) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -zhah (iterative stem of root -ZHAʼ, “to be curved”).

Verb edit

adishah

it snags, it is snaggy, hooked, sharp-pointed

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Neuter repetitive.

Derived terms edit

béésh adishahí (“barbed wire”)