haachiiʼ

Navajo edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

haachiiʼ

there is a red outcropping or patch of it (on the mountainside)
Dził bąąh łeezh łichíʼí haachiiʼ. ― There is a patch of red clay 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	haachiiʼ		hadaashchiiʼ