kʼáy

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qʼαʼy. Cognates include Navajo kʼaiʼ and Dogrib k'àa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʼáj], [kʼáʒ]
• Hyphenation: kʼáy

Noun

kʼáy (stem -kʼáy-)

1. willow

Inflection

Possessive inflection of kʼáy (-kʼáyé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sekʼáyé	naxekʼáyé
2nd person		nekʼáyé
3rd person	1)	—	gikʼáyé
	2)	mekʼáyé	gokʼáyé
4th person		yekʼáyé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedekʼáyé	kedekʼáyé
	unsp.	dekʼáyé
reciprocal		—	ɂełekʼáyé
indefinite		ɂekʼáyé
areal		gokʼáyé

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 96