adishah

Navajo

Etymology

ʼa- (unspecified person object prefix) + -di- (thematic) + -Ø- (3rd person subject prefix) + -ł- (classifier) + -zhah (iterative stem of root -ZHAʼ, “to be curved”).

Verb

adishah

it snags, it is snaggy, hooked, sharp-pointed

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter repetitive.

Derived terms

béésh adishahí (“barbed wire”)

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