bétʼood

== Navajo == === Etymology === bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -é- (“about”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + + -tʼood (imperfective stem of + root -TʼOOD, “to tear”) === Verb === bétʼood to become bald, mangy, for one's hair to become thin ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/yi), 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 157. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 558