dootłʼizh

Etymology 1
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Verb

 * 1) he/she/it is turquoise, green, blue

Usage notes
This word is used to refer to all shades of blue or green (especially the blue), including turquoise, which is approximately halfway in between. The related term dootłʼizhii is limited to the narrow turquoise spectrum.

This is a neuter verb that only uses the perfective stem.

Conjugation
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Note: the forms in the 1st and 2nd persons are suppletive forms from the dini- (neuter imperfective) paradigm, but without the l-classifier and keeping the perfective stem -tłʼizh. See,.

Etymology 2
The use of dootłʼizh (green) to refer to the dime coin comes from the green color of the fractional currency note for this denomination during the Civil War.

Noun

 * 1) dime (coin)