bee atsʼiʼí

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== Navajo == === Etymology === bee (“by means of it”) + ʼa- (unspecified person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tsʼiʼ (imperfective stem of root -TSʼIʼ, “to pinch”) + -í (nominalizer), literally “by means of it something unspecified is pinched” === Noun === bee atsʼiʼí tweezers pincer === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 635