hooʼaah
Navajo
Etymology
ho- (“space, area, things”) + -yi- (transitional) + -Ø- (3rd person subject prefix) + -Ø- (classifier) + -ʼaah (transitional imperfective stem of root -ʼĄ́, “to handle SRO”).
Verb
hooʼaah
- there is room, room is made for someone
- Shá hooʼaʼ. ― I got some room.
- a law passes about something
- Bee hooʼaʼ. ― It became a law, has been made legal.
- a disease strikes someone, someone gets sick
- shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I got sick.
- Bee shąąh dah hooʼaʼ. ― I caught it (a disease), lit. impersonal-it stroke me with the disease.
Conjugation
Paradigm: Transitional (yii/yii), third person only.
| 3rd person singular | |
|---|---|
| IMPERFECTIVE | hooʼaah |
| PERFECTIVE | hooʼaʼ |
| FUTURE | hwiidooʼaał |
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