hoyoołdas

== Navajo == === Etymology === ho- (“space, area, things”) + -hi- (seriative) + -oo- (yi-perfective 3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -dáás (cursive stem of the root -DÁÁZ, “to be heavy”). === Verb === hoyoołdas an area is progressively eroding away (e.g. the bank of an arroyo) ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Progressive (yi), third person only. === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 123