adildóóh

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== Navajo == === Etymology === ʼa- (unspecified person subject prefix) + -di- (inceptive) + -l- (classifier) + -dóóh (momentaneous imperfective stem of the root -DO, “gas/an amorphous substance moves, floats”). === Verb === adildóóh something unspecified starts to drift or waft through the air (with -ił) to start to ride along through the air (in a hot-air balloon); to start to ride an escalator ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/si), third person only. === 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 18. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 143