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Etymology 1
From.

Found in a wide range of extended meanings across all Athabaskan languages including Navajo, with potentially convergence in shape with other roots (see below “to jolt”), making the analyzis quite difficult.

Cognate root found in 🇨🇬,, , , 🇨🇬,.

The Navajo root describes the movement of a slender flexible object (as a rope, a chain, a wire,...), of objects coming in pairs (as gloves, shoes, scissors,...), or of a group of animate objects (as a band, a tribe, a herd). Extended meanings include the eating of plural objects (as berries), the slamming of an object (like a rope but not exclusively) against another one, and the conception of a baby or egg.

Root
1. SFO moves or falls (a rope, a pair of shoes, a tribe)

2. to eat plural objects
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Synonyms
SFO verbs: crowd, herd moves: to eat:
 * (hard O)
 * (leafy O)
 * (plural O)
 * (liquid O)
 * (meat)
 * (chunky O)
 * (mushy O)

Etymology 2
From. Maybe related to above from, with its extended meaning related to “hitting”, “striking” or “slamming”.

Cognate root found in 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Root

 * 1) to jolt, to jar, to shake


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Synonyms
to shake: