-CHXOZH

Navajo

Etymology

From -CHOZH (“to eat leafy matter”) + -x- (emphatic infix).

Root

-CHXOZH

1. to pop, burst explosively

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
l	adjectival	S is effervescent dilchxosh (NEUT)
l	successive	S pops, spurts — yiilchxosh (MOM) diilchxosh	S pops O ahehełchxóósh (MOM) yiyiiłchxosh (SEM) yidiiłchxosh

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
MOM	-chxóósh	-chxozh	-chxosh	-chxosh	-chxóósh
SEM	-chxosh	-chxosh	-chxosh	-chxosh	-chxosh
NEUTER	-chxosh	—	—	—	—

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to pop:

• -DO
• -DON
• -TÁÁL

to bubble:

• -GHAAZH

 

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -CHXOZH (pop)

References

• Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987) The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 321.