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Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *qʷetsʼ (“stick-like or heavy object falls”).
Cognate root found in Ahtna naghilkaetsʼ (“(knife, box) fell down”), Chipewyan -kɛ́θ (“long object drops”).
The nasal vowel, found only in Navajo, is unexplained. See also -KÉÉZ where some confusion has arisen.
Root
-KĘ́Ę́Z
- SSO moves, falls (as a stick, a pencil)
Stem set
See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Navajo terms belonging to the root -KĘ́Ę́Z (SSO moves)