-ZHĮ́

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Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *šen (“summer”).

In Navajo, the initial fricative *š of Proto-Athabaskan didn't sonorize to zh, so in verbal stems and in the nominal stem shį́ (“summer”) the initial voiceless fricative sh is maintained (with the exception of the adverbial derivative díízhíní (“this summer”), which shows a later sonorization). However, for consistency, the stem set of this root is presented with an analogical voiced initial zh. See also -HAI (“winter”) for a similar situation.

Root

-ZHĮ́

  1. to become summer, to pass the summer
Theme Category Bases Transitive bases (O + ł)
∅ motion

it becomes summer

↳ beeshį́į́h
↳ chʼínáshį́į́h (ná-, “back”)

Stem set

Aspect IMP PERF FUT ITER OPT
MOM -zhį́į́h -zhį́ -zhį́į́ł -zhį́į́h -zhį́į́h

See also Appendix: Roots and stems derivation.

Antonyms

Derived terms

Navajo terms belonging to the root -ZHĮ́ (summer)

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia