naabá
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Navajo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]na- (“downward”) + -yi- (modal) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).
Verb
[edit]naabá
- there is a descending gray line or strip
Usage notes
[edit]This verb is limited to expression in the third person.
This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.
Conjugation
[edit]Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only.