yitʼééh

Navajo

Etymology

y- (peg element) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tʼééh (imperfective stem of root -TʼIʼ, “a slender flexible object extends”).

Verb

yitʼééh

it stretches or extends to somewhere (as a rope, a wire or a fence)
Biih / kįįh / łeeh / taah yitʼééh. ― It extends into it / into town / into the ground / into the water.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), third person only.

	3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE	yitʼééh
PERFECTIVE	yítʼiʼ
FUTURE	dootih

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