agaan

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-ɢa̓·ŋ-əʔ.

Cognate with Western Apache -gan, Chiricahua -gan, Jicarilla -gan, Lipan -gąą’, Plains Apache -gąą, Tsuut'ina -gànὰ’, Hupa -ɢan-, Mattole -gaane’, Galice gaaneʔ, Chilcotin -gán, Slavey, Hare North Slavey -góné’, Dogrib -gǫ̀, Chipewyan -gané, Sekani -gòne’, Beaver -góné’, Lower Tanana -gonaʔ, Hän -gæ̀nn’, Ahtna -ggaane’, Dena'ina -ɢuna, Eyak -ɢəla’, Tlingit jín (“hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̀kɑ̀ːn/

Noun

agaan (compound forms gąą-, gą-, gan-)

1. arm, someone’s arm
2. foreleg, limb, branch, front wheel

   tsin bigaan ― tree limb

Inflection

Possessives of agaan

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shigaan	nihigaan	danihigaan
2nd person	nigaan	nihigaan	danihigaan
3rd person	bigaan
4th person (3o)	yigaan
4th person (3a)	hagaan
Indefinite (3i)	agaan

Derived terms

• agąąstsiin
• agąąghah
• agąąziz