Talk:áłtsʼíísí

etymology question
Aren't all Navajo verb stems monosyllabic? Eirikr 16:35, 4 February 2014‎ (UTC)


 * No, there are several stems with two syllables: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; and so on. —Stephen (Talk) 08:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Apologies, I should have been clearer -- I believe verb roots are monosyllabic, based in part on my readings of Y&M and of Vajda. Looking at the verb stems above, I note that cold is also expressed in, which is clearly  + , indicating that the usually-nominalizing suffix  does sometimes show up in verb stems, as also with  in , manifesting with the suffix in  and .  As such, I'm curious as to further analysis of verb stem  into its apparent roots  (perhaps as at  “body”, apparently related to  “meat, flesh”?) + , and how the term  came into its current meaning.  &#8209;&#8209; Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 01:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I don’t know that the last vowel in two-syllable stems comes from a nominalizing suffix at all; as far as I know these stems do not break down any further. In words such as, the stem is not -zhóní, it is only . I don’t know of any Athabaskan etymology sources that explain how the two-syllable stems came about. —Stephen (Talk) 14:12, 1 March 2014 (UTC)