yiniiłjoł

Etymology

y- (3rd person object prefix) + -ni- (“round shape”) + -yi- (semelfactive) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier, causative) + -jooł (imperfective stem of root -JOOL, “to be spherical”).

Verb

yiniiłjoł

  1. to crumple it up into a wad

Conjugation

Paradigm: Semelfactive (∅/si)

References

  • Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 671.
  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 282
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