kʼaaʼ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kaa"

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-q’aʔ, cognates include Western Apache kʼaaʼ and Chipewyan k’á.

Noun

kʼaaʼ (possessed form bikʼaʼ)

1. arrow
2. bullet

Inflection

possessives of kʼaaʼ

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shikʼaʼ	nihikʼaʼ	danihikʼaʼ
2nd person	nikʼaʼ	nihikʼaʼ	danihikʼaʼ
3rd person	bikʼaʼ
4th person (3o)	yikʼaʼ
4th person (3a)	hakʼaʼ
Indefinite (3i)	akʼaʼ

Derived terms

• kʼaaʼ biziiz
• kʼaayééł

See also

• ałtį́į́ʼ
• béésh astʼogii
• kʼaabéésh

Western Apache

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-q’aʔ, cognates include Navajo kʼaaʼ and Chipewyan k’á.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑ̃ː˨]

Noun

kʼaaʼ

1. arrow
2. bullet

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.