Talk:kééhatʼį́

tone
Why does this verb have a low tone vowel in its pre-stem syllable?


 * kééha- is a compound prefix used only with the stem . kééha- is a compound of kéé- + ha-, where is in position Ia, and  (indefinite deictic 3rd-person subject pronoun denoting space or area) is in position IV.  has a low tone. —Stephen (Talk) 00:26, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
 * The meaning and the inherent tone of those prefixes is pretty clear. But how about this rule from "The Navajo Verb" by Faltz: If the pre-stem syllable has a short vowel in it, then it acquires a high tone if the syllable immediately preceding it has a high tone on the vowel that it ends with. I've just looked through some examples in Young's The Navajo Verb System. In those paradigms  changes its tone after  or náá(ná) as in  or . It seems to be some kind fo irregularity in kééhatʼį́. —Łoo&#39; Hashkéhé (talk) 06:44, 3 March 2018 (UTC)