bitsʼáhoníyééʼ
Navajo
Etymology
bitsʼá- (away from it) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + -ní- (ni-perfective 3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -yééʼ (neuter imperfective stem of root -YÉÉʼ, “terror”).
Verb
bitsʼáhoníyééʼ
- things are frightened away from it
Conjugation
Paradigm: Neuter imperfective (ni), third person only
References
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 696