Navajo edit

Etymology edit

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -yi- (semelfactive) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier)-chosh (semelfactive imperfective stem of root -CHOZH, “to pop”), with emphatic infix -x-.

Verb edit

yiyiiłchxosh

  1. he/she is popping it, bursting it

Conjugation edit

Paradigm: Semelfactive (yii/si).

IMPERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person yiishchxosh yiilchxosh deiilchxosh
2nd person yiiłchxosh woołchxosh daoołchxosh
3rd person yiyiiłchxosh dayiiłchxosh
4th person jiiłchxosh dajiiłchxosh
PERFECTIVE singular duoplural plural
1st person shéłchxosh shiilchxosh dashiilchxosh
2nd person shíníłchxosh shoołchxosh dashoołchxosh
3rd person yishchxosh deishchxosh
4th person jishchxosh dajishchxosh