hodiitłʼíísh

== Navajo == === Etymology === ho- (“space, area, things”) + -di- (“color”) + -yi- (transitional) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -tłʼíísh (imperfective stem of the root -TŁʼIIZH, “to be blue, green”). === Verb === hodiitłʼíísh it (an area or place) turns blue or green (with -ił): an area or place becomes contaminated after being struck by lightning (said to turn the land blue or green) ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Transitional (∅/∅). === 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 453. Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 584