adaʼanil

== Navajo == === Etymology === ʼa- (“away”) + -da- (plural) + -ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -nil (distributive imperfective stem of the root -NIL, “to handle plural objects”). === Verb === adaʼanil to drill multiple holes 2000, Memories Come to Us in the Rain and Wind: Oral Histories and Photographs of Navajo Uranium Miners and Their Families to dig multiple burrows ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Distributive (∅/si). === References === Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 10. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 440