ałkʼéstas

== Navajo == === Etymology === ałkʼi (“on top of each other”) + s- (si-perfective 3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -tas (neuter stem of root -TAAZ, “to bend”) === Verb === ałkʼéstas they are twisted together, entwined ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Neuter perfective (si), third person only === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 493