biʼniigan

== Navajo == === Etymology === bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ʼnii- (“inchoative”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -gan (momentaneous stem of root -GAN, “to wither”) === Verb === biʼniigan to start to dry up or wither away to become skinny or emaciated ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/∅), third person only === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page number