náʼoolkił

Etymology

ná- (“around”) + -oo- (yi-progressive 3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -kił (cursive progressive stem of the root -KID, “to slide”).

Verb

náʼoolkił

  1. an unspecified object slides around in a circle (as the hands on a clock)

Derived terms

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 326
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