-KÉÉZ
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Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *qʊs-x (“to cough”).
Cognate root found in Ahtna delkos (“he is coughing”), Carrier dəlkwəs (“he coughs”).
Occurs in Southern Athabaskan along with tsí-thematic in bases related to thinking. This meaning is probably rather related to the non-nasalized form of -KĘ́Ę́Z (in which the nazalization is non-etymological).
Root
[edit]-KÉÉZ
1. to cough
Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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di + l | successive |
S coughs |
2. to think, to ponder, to decide
Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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tsí + ∅ |
S thinks
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Stem set
[edit]Aspect | IMP | PERF | FUT | ITER | OPT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOM / CONT | -kees | -kééz | -kos | -kos | -kees |
REP | -kos | — | — | — | — |
SEM | -kos | -kos | -kos | -kos | -kos |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.