yiʼaał

== Navajo == === Etymology === y- (3rd person object prefix) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -ʼaał (durative imperfective stem of root -ʼAAL, “to eat a hard object”). === Verb === yiʼaał he/she is chewing it (something hard or tough) he/she is eating it (something hard or tough) ==== Conjugation ==== Paradigm: Durative (∅/yi). ==== Verbal stems ==== IMPERFECTIVE: -ʼaał PERFECTIVE: -ʼaal FUTURE: -ʼał ITERATIVE: -ʼał OPTATIVE: -ʼaał ==== Derived terms ==== azeeʼ deiʼaałí (“peyote”) ==== See also ==== yidlą́ (liquid) yiʼaał (hard) yildeeł (plural) yilghał (meat) yilkeed (chunky) yiłchozh (leafy) yiłtsʼééh (mushy) === References === Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 29 == Western Apache == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [jiʔ˨ɑ̃ːɬ˨] === Verb === yiʼaał he/she chews === References === 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.