"yiikʼai" meaning in Navajo

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Verb

Etymology: yi- (semelfactive) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier) + -kʼaih (semelfactive imperfective stem of root -KʼAIʼ, “to spread legs”). Etymology templates: {{nv-prefix|yi-semel|a}} yi- (semelfactive), {{nv-prefix|3s}} -∅- (3rd person subject prefix), {{nv-prefix|∅}} -∅- (classifier), {{nv-prefixes|yi-semel|3s|∅}} yi- (semelfactive) + -∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -∅- (classifier), {{nowrap|<i class="Latn mention" lang="nv">-kʼaih</i>}} -kʼaih, {{nv-link-to-stem|-kʼaih|semelfactive imperfective}} + -kʼaih (semelfactive imperfective stem of, {{nowrap|<i class="Latn mention" lang="nv">-KʼAIʼ</i>}} -KʼAIʼ, {{nv-link-to-root|-KʼAIʼ|spread legs}} root -KʼAIʼ, “to spread legs”) Head templates: {{head|nv|verb|intransitive}} yiikʼai (intransitive) Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], yiishkʼaih [first-person, imperfective, singular], yiikʼaih [duoplural, first-person, imperfective], deiikʼaih [first-person, imperfective, plural], yiikʼaih [imperfective, second-person, singular], woohkʼaih [duoplural, imperfective, second-person], daoohkʼaih [imperfective, plural, second-person], yiikʼaih [duoplural, imperfective, singular, third-person], dayiikʼaih [imperfective, plural, third-person], jiikʼaih [duoplural, fourth-person, imperfective, singular], dajiikʼaih [fourth-person, imperfective, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], sékʼaih [first-person, perfective, singular], siikʼaih [duoplural, first-person, perfective], dasiikʼaih [first-person, perfective, plural], síníkʼaih [perfective, second-person, singular], sookʼaih [duoplural, perfective, second-person], dasookʼaih [perfective, plural, second-person], yizkʼaih [duoplural, perfective, singular, third-person], deizkʼaih [perfective, plural, third-person], jizkʼaih [duoplural, fourth-person, perfective, singular], dajizkʼaih [fourth-person, perfective, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], deeshkʼaih [first-person, future, singular], diikʼaih [duoplural, first-person, future], dadiikʼaih [first-person, future, plural], dííkʼaih [future, second-person, singular], doohkʼaih [duoplural, future, second-person], dadoohkʼaih [future, plural, second-person], dookʼaih [duoplural, future, singular, third-person], dadookʼaih [future, plural, third-person], jidookʼaih [duoplural, fourth-person, future, singular], dazhdookʼaih [fourth-person, future, plural]
  1. he/she is spreading his/her legs apart Tags: intransitive Related terms: sikʼaiʼ
    Sense id: en-yiikʼai-nv-verb-v6TXDtDr Categories (other): Navajo entries with incorrect language header, Navajo terms belonging to the root -KʼAIʼ (spread legs), Navajo terms in nonstandard scripts, Navajo terms prefixed with yi- (semelfactive), Navajo terms prefixed with ∅- (classifier), Navajo verbs in the semelfactive (yii/si) aspect

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          "kind": "other",
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        "second-person"
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        "duoplural",
        "future",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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        "future",
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        "third-person"
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        "fourth-person",
        "future",
        "singular"
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      "word": "sikʼaiʼ"
    }
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        "Navajo lemmas",
        "Navajo terms belonging to the root -KʼAIʼ (spread legs)",
        "Navajo terms in nonstandard scripts",
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        "Navajo terms prefixed with ∅- (classifier)",
        "Navajo verbs",
        "Navajo verbs in the semelfactive (yii/si) aspect"
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        "he/she is spreading his/her legs apart"
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          "spreading",
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "yiikʼai"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Navajo dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.