"-HAI" meaning in Navajo

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "spring",
      "translation": "spring",
      "word": "-DĄĄD"
    },
    {
      "english": "summer",
      "translation": "summer",
      "word": "-ZHĮ́"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*x̣αy",
        "4": "",
        "5": "winter"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy (“winter”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy (“winter”).\nIn Navajo, the initial fricative *x̣ of Proto-Athabaskan did not sonorize to gh, so in verbal stems and in the nominal stem hai (“winter”) the initial voiceless fricative h is maintained (with the exception of the adverbial derivative díí ghaaí or dííghaaí (“this winter”), which shows a later sonorization). See also -ZHĮ́ (“summer”) for a similar situation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "root"
      },
      "expansion": "-HAI",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a winter, a year passes"
      ],
      "id": "en--HAI-nv-root-IxLyvt0Y",
      "links": [
        [
          "winter",
          "winter"
        ],
        [
          "year",
          "year"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-HAI"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "spring",
      "translation": "spring",
      "word": "-DĄĄD"
    },
    {
      "english": "summer",
      "translation": "summer",
      "word": "-ZHĮ́"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "ath-pro",
        "3": "*x̣αy",
        "4": "",
        "5": "winter"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy (“winter”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy (“winter”).\nIn Navajo, the initial fricative *x̣ of Proto-Athabaskan did not sonorize to gh, so in verbal stems and in the nominal stem hai (“winter”) the initial voiceless fricative h is maintained (with the exception of the adverbial derivative díí ghaaí or dííghaaí (“this winter”), which shows a later sonorization). See also -ZHĮ́ (“summer”) for a similar situation.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nv",
        "2": "root"
      },
      "expansion": "-HAI",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Navajo",
  "lang_code": "nv",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Navajo entries with incorrect language header",
        "Navajo lemmas",
        "Navajo roots",
        "Navajo terms derived from Proto-Athabaskan",
        "Navajo terms inherited from Proto-Athabaskan",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a winter, a year passes"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "winter",
          "winter"
        ],
        [
          "year",
          "year"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "-HAI"
}