-TSAʼ

== Navajo == === Etymology === From Proto-Athabaskan *tsαɢ (“to act with teeth by biting”). In Navajo this root often occurs with the emphatic infix -x-. It is related to the noun atsá (“eagle”). === Root === -TSAʼ to bite down, to grasp (with teeth or beak), to clench ==== Stem set ==== See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 589