cheekuah

South Slavey

Etymology

From cheeku (“young man”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɛ̀ː.kʷʰù.à(h)]
• Hyphenation: chee‧ku‧a

Noun

cheekuah (stem -cheekuah-)

1. boy

Inflection

Possessive inflection of cheekuah (-cheekúah)

		singular	plural
1st person		secheekúah	naxecheekúah
2nd person		necheekúah
3rd person	1)	—	gicheekúah
	2)	mecheekúah	gocheekúah
4th person		yecheekúah
reflexive	sp.	ɂedecheekúah	kedecheekúah
	unsp.	decheekúah
reciprocal		—	ɂełecheekúah
indefinite		ɂecheekúah
areal		gocheekúah

¹⁾ Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
²⁾ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 18