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Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *ʼa̓tɬʼ (“to chew, to bite”).
Cognate root found in Ahtna cʼeʼaał (“he is chewing sth”), yizʼał (“he bit it once”), Gwich'in iiʼàal (“I ate it”), Chipewyan ɣɛsʼaíł (“Iʼm chewing it”)
Found in Navajo in bases related to the eating of hard or crispy food like peanut, candy, celery, bacon.
Root
-ʼAAL
- to eat hard object
Stem set
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Synonyms
to eat:
to chew, to bite:
Derived terms
Navajo terms belonging to the root -ʼAAL (eat hard)