Navajo edit

Etymology edit

ho- (space, area, things) + -yi- (transitional) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier)-ʼįįh (transitional stem of root -ʼĮ́Į́ʼ, “to look”), lit. “things become visible”.

Verb edit

hoolʼįįh

  1. morning dawns, it becomes daylight, it gets light, the place gets lit up

Conjugation edit

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

3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE hoolʼįįh
PERFECTIVE hoosʼįįd
FUTURE hwiidoolʼįįł

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