haabá

Navajo edit

Etymology edit

ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).

Verb edit

haabá

there is a gray outcropping or patch (on the mountainside)
Dził bąąh haabá. ― There is a gray patch on the mountainside.

Usage notes edit

This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.

PERFECTIVE	singular	plural	dist. plural
3rd person	haabá		hadaasbá