haagai

== Navajo == === Etymology === ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -gai (neuter perfective stem of the root -GAII, “to be white”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɑ̀ːkɑ̀ɪ̀/ === Verb === haagai there is a white outcropping or patch of it (on the mountainside) Yas dził bąąh haagai. ― There is a white patch of snow 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. === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 196