biʼniitłʼis

== Navajo == === Etymology === bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ʼnii- (“inchoative”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tłʼis (momentaneous stem of root -TŁʼIS, “to harden”) === Verb === biʼniitłʼis to start to harden (as drying concrete) ==== 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 580