hodileeh

Navajo

Etymology

ho- (“space, area, things”) + -di- (inceptive) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -leeh (imperfective stem of root -LĮ́Į́ʼ, “to become”).

Verb

hodileeh

to start to come in existence, start to form, start to become

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 450.