-TSʼIL

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *kʸʼəl (“to rip, tear, split”).

The noun atsʼiil (“fragment”) is derived from this root.

Root

-TSʼIL

1. to shatter, break, burst, bloat

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
∅	successive	S breaks yiitsʼił (SEM)	S breaks O yiyiiłtsʼił (SEM) yiłtsʼil (REP) ↳ ałtsʼil
∅	adjectival	S is broken sitsʼil (NEUT)

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
REP / DUR	-tsʼil	-tsʼil	-tsʼił	-tsʼił	-tsʼil
SEM	-tsʼił	-tsʼil	-tsʼił	-tsʼił	-tsʼił
NEUT	—	-tsʼil	—	—	—

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -TSʼIL (shatter)