yishjool

Navajo

Etymology

y- (peg element) + -si- (modal) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + -jool (neuter perfective stem of the root -JOOL, “to be spherical”).

Verb

yishjool

1. to sit hunched up in a ball
2. to sit or lie cowering

   beeldléí bee shishjool ― I am lying under a blanket

3. there lies (said of a corpse or deceased person)

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (si).

perfective	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shishjool	shiiljool	dashiiljool
2nd person	shíníljool	shoołjool	dashoołjool
3rd person	yishjool	daashjool
4th person	jishjool	dajishjool

References

• Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 283