tʼeesh

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tʼe̓š (“charcoal”).

This term is also related to the root -TʼÉÉZH (“to blacken with charcoal”).

Noun

tʼeesh (possessed form bitʼeezh)

1. charcoal
2. ash

   Gad bitʼeezh ― juniper ash

Inflection

Possessives of tʼeesh

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shitʼeezh	nihitʼeezh	danihitʼeezh
2nd person	nitʼeezh	nihitʼeezh	danihitʼeezh
3rd person	bitʼeezh
4th person (3o)	yitʼeezh
4th person (3a)	hatʼeezh
Indefinite (3i)	atʼeezh