tsʼaaʼ

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tsʼakʸʼ (“plate, basket”).

Noun

tsʼaaʼ (possessed form bitsʼaʼ)

1. basket
2. pod
3. shell

Inflection

possessives of tsʼaaʼ

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	sitsʼaʼ	nihitsʼaʼ	danihitsʼaʼ
2nd person	nitsʼaʼ	nihitsʼaʼ	danihitsʼaʼ
3rd person	bitsʼaʼ
4th person (3o)	yitsʼaʼ
4th person (3a)	hatsʼaʼ
Indefinite (3i)	atsʼaʼ

Derived terms

• łeetsʼaaʼ