-TʼIʼ
Navajo
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *t’əkʸ’ (“to be stretched, taut”).
Cognate root found in Ahtna nic’et’ (“it is stretched”) (with metathesis), Gwich'in niint’aii (“it is extended”), Chipewyan nįtʼiy (“it is tight”).
Describes the extension into a line of a slender flexible object as a rope, a wire, and by extension, a fence, a road, rails or a line of people.
Root
[edit]-TʼIʼ
- SFO extends
Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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∅ | extensional |
S extends
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S extends O
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∅ |
S extends |
Stem set
[edit]Aspect | IMP | PERF | FUT | ITER | OPT |
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MOM | -tʼééh | -tʼiʼ | -tʼih | -tʼih | -tʼééh |
CONT | -tʼiʼ | -tʼiʼ | -tʼih | -tʼih | -tʼiʼ |
REV | -tʼih | -tʼiʼ | -tʼih | -tʼih | -tʼih |
NEUTER | - | -tʼiʼ | - | - | - |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Synonyms
[edit]SFO verbs:
Derived terms
[edit]Navajo terms belonging to the root -TʼIʼ (SFO extends)
Etymology 2
[edit]Uncertain. Cognate not found in other Athabaskan languages.
There is some variation in the actual stems of the imperfective and perfective modes, both -tʼiʼ and -tʼi being reported by various sources. Perhaps an influence of -TʼIʼabove.
Root
[edit]-TʼIʼ
Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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ʼa + ni + ∅ | motion |
S staggers
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Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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dzi + d | motion |
S goes swiftly
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3. to beat hard, to pound (the heart of a frightened person)
Theme | Category | Bases | Transitive bases (O + ł) | ||||
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dzi + d | successive |
S beats hard
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Stem set
[edit]Aspect | IMP | PERF | FUT | ITER | OPT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MOM | -tʼééh | -tʼiʼ | -tʼih | -tʼih | -tʼééh |
CONT | -tʼi | -tʼi | -tʼih | -tʼih | -tʼi |
REP | -tʼih | - | - | - | - |
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Synonyms
[edit]to stagger:
to pulsate:
to go swiftly, to dash: