biʼniitʼees

== Navajo == === Etymology === bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ʼnii- (“inchoative”) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tʼees (momentaneous imperfective stem of root -TʼÉ, “to cook — intransitive”) === Verb === biʼniitʼees it starts to cook ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Momentaneous (∅/∅), 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 220. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 536