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yaaʼ

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Etymology

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From Proto-Athabaskan *yaʼ.[1]

Noun

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yaaʼ (possessed form biyaʼ)

  1. louse, tick, mite, flea

Inflection

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Possessives of yaaʼ
singular duoplural plural
1st person shiyaʼ nihiyaʼ danihiyaʼ
2nd person niyaʼ nihiyaʼ danihiyaʼ
3rd person biyaʼ
4th person (3o) yiyaʼ
4th person (3a) hayaʼ
Indefinite (3i) ayaʼ

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 94

Western Apache

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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yaaʼ

  1. sky