nihwiiʼeeł

== Navajo == === Etymology === ni- (terminative) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + -hi- (seriative) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼeeł (imperfective stem of root -ʼÉÉL, “to float”) === Verb === nihwiiʼeeł things float to a stopping point one after another things are washed away by water ==== Derived terms ==== tsin bił nihwiiʼeeł (“driftwood”) === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 182