hooʼaah
Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ho- (“space, area, things”) + -yi- (transitional) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼaah (transitional imperfective stem of root -ʼĄ́, “to handle SRO”).
Verb
[edit]hooʼaah
- there is room, room is made for someone
- Shá hooʼaʼ. ― I got some room.
- a law passes about something
- Bee hooʼaʼ. ― It became a law, has been made legal.
- a disease strikes someone, someone gets sick
- shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I got sick.
- Bee shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I caught it (a disease), lit. impersonal-it stroke me with the disease.
Conjugation
[edit]Paradigm: Transitional (yii/yii), third person only.
| 3rd person singular | |
|---|---|
| IMPERFECTIVE | hooʼaah |
| PERFECTIVE | hooʼaʼ |
| FUTURE | [[hwiidooʼaał
]] |
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- Navajo terms prefixed with ho/ha- (object)
- Navajo terms prefixed with yi- (transitional)
- Navajo terms prefixed with ∅- (classifier)
- Navajo terms belonging to the root -ʼĄ́ (handle SRO)
- Navajo lemmas
- Navajo verbs
- Navajo terms with usage examples
- Navajo verbs used in third person only
- Navajo verbs in the transitional (yii/yii) aspect