haachiiʼ

Navajo

Etymology

ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + -Ø- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -chiiʼ (neuter perfective stem of root -CHIIʼ, “to be red”).

Verb

haachiiʼ

there is a red outcropping or patch of it (on the mountainside)
Dził bąąh łeezh łichíʼí haachiiʼ. ― There is a patch of red clay on the mountainside.

Usage notes

This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem.

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.

PERFECTIVE	singular	plural	dist. plural
3rd person	haachiiʼ		hadaashchiiʼ