dzéh
Appearance
South Slavey
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Athabaskan *džeˑx. Cognates include Navajo jeeh and Dogrib dzèh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dzéh (stem -dzéh-)
Inflection
[edit]singular | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|
1st person | sedzéhé | naxedzéhé | |
2nd person | nedzéhé | ||
3rd person | 1) | — | gidzéhé |
2) | medzéhé | godzéhé | |
4th person | yedzéhé | ||
reflexive | sp. | ɂededzéhé | kededzéhé |
unsp. | dedzéhé | ||
reciprocal | — | ɂełedzéhé | |
indefinite | ɂedzéhé | ||
areal | godzéhé |
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
[edit]- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 12