hooʼaah

Navajo

Etymology

ho- (“space, area, things”) + -yi- (transitional) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼaah (transitional imperfective stem of root -ʼĄ́, “to handle SRO”).

Verb

hooʼaah

1. there is room, room is made for someone

   Shá hooʼaʼ. ― I got some room.

2. a law passes about something

   Bee hooʼaʼ. ― It became a law, has been made legal.

3. a disease strikes someone, someone gets sick

   shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I got sick.

   Bee shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I caught it (a disease), lit. impersonal-it stroke me with the disease.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Transitional (yii/yii), third person only.

	3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE	hooʼaah
PERFECTIVE	hooʼaʼ
FUTURE	hwiidooʼaał

Related terms

• hazʼą́
• hoołʼaah