chʼííłtʼééh

== Navajo == === Etymology === chʼí- (“out horizontally”) + -y- (3rd person object prefix) + -◌́- (ni-modal 3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier, causative) + -tʼééh (imperfective stem of root -TʼIʼ, “a slender flexible object extends”). === Verb === chʼííłtʼééh he/she is extending it out horizontally (as a rope, a wire or a fence) ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Momentaneous (ni/ni), with partial da-shift. ==== Verbal stems ==== ITERATIVE: -tʼih OPTATIVE: -tʼééh ==== Related terms ==== === 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 294. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 548