-DÉÉL

-DÉÉL

Navajo

Etymology 1

From Proto-Athabaskan *detɬʼ (“plural or rope-like subject falls or moves abruptly”).

Found in a wide range of extended meanings across all Athabaskan languages including Navajo, with potentially convergence in shape with other roots (see below Proto-Athabaskan *dətɬʼ “to jolt”), making the analyzis quite difficult.

Cognate root found in Ahtna Ø+daetlʼ (“plural S go, fly”), ałdaetlʼ (“I threw them, moved them quickly”), niłdełdeł (“he struck them together”), yaldaetlʼ (“he ate them”), Gwich'in kʼeegiidàl (“they arrived”), naljil (“I ate them”).

The Navajo root describes the movement of a slender flexible object (as a rope, a chain, a wire,...), of objects coming in pairs (as gloves, shoes, scissors,...), or of a group of animate objects (as a band, a tribe, a herd). Extended meanings include the eating of plural objects (as berries), the slamming of an object (like a rope but not exclusively) against another one, and the conception of a baby or egg.

Root

-DÉÉL

  1. SFO moves or falls (a rope, a pair of shoes, a tribe)

Theme	Category	Bases	Transitive bases (O + ł)
Ø	motion	S moves or falls yideeł (Ø-MOM) iideeł dideeł diideeł haadeeł naadeeł nádeeł tádideeł yídeeł (ni-MOM) chʼédeeł niideeł — (CONT) yidił (PROG)	S throws O yiłdeeł (Ø-MOM) iiłdeeł — — haiłdeeł neiłdeeł — — — (ni-MOM) chʼííłdeeł — — (CONT) — (PROG)
Ø		S is conceived (a baby) yiideeł (MOM) oodił (PROG)	S conceives O yiiłdeeł (MOM)
Ø	successive	S bounces, hits — (MOM) — — (REP) — nikídidił — nikídiidił (SEM)	S bounces O, hits P with SFO néidiiłdeeł (MOM) yíníiłdeeł néiniłdił (REP) adiłdił (“play dice”) nikíidiłdił yíidiłdił nikíidiiłdił (SEM) yíidiiłdił

  2. to eat plural objects

Theme	Category	Bases	+ Unspec object
l	operative	S eats O yiʼniildeeł (MOM) niyíldeeł néineesdéél néidíníldeeł yildeeł (DUR)	S eats iʼniildeeł (MOM) — náʼneesdéél — aldeeł (DUR)

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
MOM / DUR	-deeł	-déél	-dił	-dił	-deeł
REP	-dił	-déél	-dił	-dił	-dił
SEM	-dił	-dił	-dił	-dił	-dił

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

SFO verbs:

• -LÁ (handle SFO)
• -TʼIʼ (SFO extends)
• -CHʼĄ́Ą́L (move suspended)
• -LOʼ (act with rope)
• -ZǪ́Ǫ́Z (pull a rope)

crowd, herd moves:

• -NÁ
• -NIIʼ
• -TEEL
• -YIZ (stampede)
• -YOL
• -ZĄ́

to eat:

• -ʼAAL (hard O)
• -CHOZH (leafy O)
• -DÉÉL (plural O)
• -DLĄ́Ą́ʼ (liquid O)
• -GHAL (meat)
• -KID (chunky O)
• -TSʼEEʼ (mushy O)
• -YĄ́Ą́ʼ
• -MAL

 

 

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -DÉÉL (SFO moves)

Navajo terms belonging to the root -DÉÉL (eat plural)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Athabaskan *də̓tɬʼ (“to jolt”). Maybe related to -DÉÉL above from Proto-Athabaskan *detɬʼ, with its extended meaning related to “hitting”, “striking” or “slamming”.

Cognate root found in Koyukon əłdəł (“he shook, quivered”), Carrier usdił (“to be nervous”), Gwich'in gwaahdàl (“it is trembling”), Chipewyan dɛldɛ́l (“(teeth) are rattling”).

Root

-DÉÉL

1. to jolt, to jar, to shake

Theme	Category	Bases	Passive (+d)
ł	successive	S jolts O yiłdil (REP) yiiłdił (SEM)	S is jolted — (REP) yiildił (SEM) hooldił

Stem set

Aspect	IMP	PERF	FUT	ITER	OPT
REP	-dil	-	-	-	-
SEM	-dił	-dił	-dił	-dił	-dił

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to shake:

• -DZID (pan, bottle)
• -GHÁÁD
• -JĄH (rattle)
• -MÁÁZ (finger, hat)
• -NAAʼ (earth, body)
• -TŁID
• -TSIZ (nervous)

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -DÉÉL (jolt)