"glass" (< tsé "rock" + sǫ" star"). Other kinds of noun compounds are the following: noun stem + postposition noun stem + verb stem noun stem + postposition + noun stem Many other various combinations of elements are possible. The most common type of noun is the deverbal noun (i.e., a noun derived from a verb). Most of these nouns are formed by adding a nominalizing enclitic, such as Mescalero -ń or -í, Western Apache -í and Navajo -í, to the end of the verb phrase. For example, in Mescalero the verb ’ént’į́į́ "he/she bewitches him/her" may become a noun by adding either the enclitic -ń (for people) or -í (for things): ’ént’į́į́ "he or she bewitches him or her" ’ént’į́į́ń "witch" ’ént’į́į́’í "witchcraft" Thus, the word ’ént’į́į́ń "witch" literally means "the one who bewitches him or her". Another example is from Navajo: ná’oolkiłí "clock" (lit. "one that is moved slowly in a circle") Many of these nouns may be quite complex, as in Navajo chidí naa’na’í bee’eldǫǫhtsoh bikáá’ dah naaznilígíí "army tank" (lit. "a car that they sit up on top of that crawls around with a big thing with which an explosion is made") Other deverbal nouns do not appear with a nominalizing enclitic, as in Navajo Hoozdo "Phoenix, Arizona" (lit. "the place is hot") ch’é’étiin "doorway" (lit. "something has a path horizontally out") For a comparison with nouns in a Northern Athabascan language, see Carrier: Nouns Noun inflection Possession Prefixes Most nouns can be inflected to show possession. Simple nouns, compound nouns, and some deverbal nouns are inflected by adding a pronominal prefix to the noun base, as in the following Chiricahua possessed noun paradigm (i.e. noun declension): As seen above, Chiricahua nouns are inflected for number (singular and dual) and person (first, second, third, fourth, and indefinite). In the third and indefinite persons, there is only one pronominal prefix bi- and ’i- (that is, Chiricahua does not have two different prefixes for the third person singular and the third person dual). Additionally, although there is a first person singular shi- and a second person singular ni-, in the plural Chiricahua only has one prefix nahi- for both the first and second persons (that is, nahi- means both first and second person plural). A distributive plural prefix daa- may also be added to possessed nouns in front of the pronominal prefixes: The prefix table below shows these