haagai

Navajo edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

haagai

there is a white outcropping or patch of it (on the mountainside)
Yas dził bąąh haagai. ― There is a white patch of snow 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	haagai		hadaasgai