-KĄĄD

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See also: kaad, -kaad, -KAAD, and -kąąd

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qanʸ (“to be sweet, to taste good”).

Cognate root found in Ahtna ilkaanʼ (“it became tasty”).

Root

-KĄĄD

  1. to sweeten

Theme Category Bases Transitive bases (O + ł)
O + ł ?

S sweetens O

S makes corn cake

łi + ∅ adjectival

S is sweet

  2. to be quite skilled at

Theme Category Bases Transitive bases (O + ł)
ho + di + ł adjectival

S gets skilled

Stem set

Aspect IMP PERF FUT ITER OPT
MOM / CONCL -kąąh -kąąd -kąął -kąąh -kąął
NEUT -kan - - - -

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Synonyms

to be skilled:

 

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -KĄĄD (sweet)

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