-KÉÉZ

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Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qʊs-x (“to cough”).

Cognate root found in Ahtna delkos (“he is coughing”), Carrier dəlkwəs (“he coughs”).

Occurs in Southern Athabaskan along with tsí-thematic in bases related to thinking. This meaning is probably rather related to the non-nasalized form of -KĘ́Ę́Z (in which the nazalization is non-etymological).

Root

-KÉÉZ

  1. to cough

Theme Category Bases Transitive bases (O + ł)
di + l successive

S coughs

  2. to think, to ponder, to decide

Theme Category Bases Transitive bases (O + ł)
tsí + ∅

S thinks

↳ ntsáhákees

Stem set

Aspect IMP PERF FUT ITER OPT
MOM / CONT -kees -kééz -kos -kos -kees
REP -kos - - - -
SEM -kos -kos -kos -kos -kos

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to think:

 

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -KÉÉZ (cough)

Navajo terms belonging to the root -KÉÉZ (think)

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