kǫ́tu
South Slavey
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kǫ́ (“fire”) + tu (“water”), probably a calque of an Algonquian language, whence also English firewater.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kǫ́tu (stem -kǫ́tu-)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | sekǫ́tué | naxekǫ́tué | |
| 2nd person | nekǫ́tué | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gikǫ́tué |
| 2) | mekǫ́tué | gokǫ́tué | |
| 4th person | yekǫ́tué | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedekǫ́tué | kedekǫ́tué |
| unsp. | dekǫ́tué | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełekǫ́tué | |
| indefinite | ɂekǫ́tué | ||
| areal | gokǫ́tué | ||
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 213