Navajo edit

Etymology edit

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -ó- (“directed at”, combining form of yíní- in the 3rd person) + -ł- (classifier, causative)-bal (neuter imperfective stem of root -BAAL, “to hang curtainlike”).

Verb edit

yółbaal

  1. he/she is holding it up curtainlike (as a coat by the fire)

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (∅).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person yíníshbaal yíníilbaal deíníilbaal
2nd person yíníłbaal yínółbaal deínółbaal
3rd person yółbaal dayółbaal
4th person jółbaal dajółbaal

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