Lesson Twenty-NineVerb Transformations
We've already seen that nouns can be made into verbs, and verbs can be made into nouns in Arapaho. There are also ways to make one type of verb into another type. We'll just look at one of these here. Contrast the following:
| hiiníh'ohut | He is flying around |
| niiníh'ohuunoo' | airplane ("it flies around") |
| heeteenebeihí3i' | They are respected |
| heeteenebeihíínóu'u | Those things are respected |
To transform an AI verb into an II verb, the final vowel of the AI stem in lengthened, then -noo- is added, plus the pronoun suffix for II verbs.