hootʼih

== Navajo == === Etymology === ho- (“space, area, things”) + -oo- (yi-progressive 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -tʼiʼ (progressive stem of root -TʼIʼ, “a slender flexible object extends”). === Verb === hootʼih a space or area is extending along in a line a route or roadway is being constructed ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Progressive (yi), third person only ==== See also ==== yitʼih === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 550