chʼétʼááh

chʼétʼááh

Navajo

Etymology

chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -Ø- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -tʼááh (imperfective stem of root -TʼAʼ, “to fly”).

Verb

chʼétʼááh

1. it is flying out horizontally (as from an enclosure)

Conjugation

Paradigm: Momentaneous (ni/ni), third person only.

	3rd person singular
IMPERFECTIVE	chʼétʼááh
PERFECTIVE	chʼétʼaʼ
FUTURE	chʼídootʼah