haabá

Etymology

ha- (“up out”) + -yi- (modal) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -d- (classifier) + -bá (neuter perfective stem of root -BAʼ, “to be gray”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɑ̀ːpɑ́/

Verb

haabá

  1. there is a gray outcropping or patch (on the mountainside)
    Dził bąąh haabá. ― There is a gray patch on the mountainside.

Usage notes

This verb is limited to expression in the third person.

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

Conjugation

Paradigm: Neuter perfective (yi), third person only, with da-shift.

perfective singular plural dist. plural
3rd person haabá hadaasbá
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