"bichaaʼ" meaning in Navajo

See bichaaʼ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From the noun stem chaaʼ (“beaver”), from Proto-Athabaskan *c̆aʼ (“beaver”). Etymology templates: {{YM1987}} Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987) The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press., {{inh|nv|ath-pro|*c̆aʼ||beaver}} Proto-Athabaskan *c̆aʼ (“beaver”) Head templates: {{head|nv|verb}} bichaaʼ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], shichaaʼ [first-person, singular], nihichaaʼ [duoplural, first-person], danihichaaʼ [first-person, plural], nichaaʼ [second-person, singular], nihichaaʼ [duoplural, second-person], danihichaaʼ [plural, second-person], bichaaʼ [third-person], yichaaʼ [fourth-person], hachaaʼ [fourth-person], achaaʼ [indefinite]
  1. to be big, huge, corpulent
    Sense id: en-bichaaʼ-nv-verb-Ik31M-Fw Categories (other): Navajo entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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