haabá

== Navajo == === Etymology === ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɑ̀ːpɑ́/ === Verb === haabá there is a gray outcropping or patch (on the mountainside) Dził bąąh haabá. ― There is a gray patch on the mountainside. ==== Usage notes ==== This verb is limited to expression in the third person. This is a neuter verb that uses only the perfective stem. ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift. ==== Related terms ==== === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 41