jíye

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *giʼgə. Cognates include Navajo didzé and Dogrib jìe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɪ́.jè(ʔ)], [t͡ʃɪ́.ʒè(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: jí‧ye

Noun

jíye (stem -jíye-)

1. berry, fruit

Inflection

Possessive inflection of jíye (-jiyeé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sejiyeé	naxejiyeé
2nd person		nejiyeé
3rd person	1)	—	gijiyeé
	2)	mejiyeé	gojiyeé
4th person		yejiyeé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedejiyeé	kedejiyeé
	unsp.	dejiyeé
reciprocal		—	ɂełejiyeé
indefinite		ɂejiyeé
areal		gojiyeé

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.

Derived terms

• jíyetú

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 92