Navajo edit

Etymology edit

yi- (progressive) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier)-tih (progressive stem of root -TIH, “to grow old”).

Verb edit

yitih

  1. he/she is aging, is getting old, is growing old

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Progressive (yi).

PROGRESSIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person yishtih yiitih deíníitííh
2nd person yítih wohtih deínóhtííh
3rd person yitih deítííh
4th person jootih dajítííh

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