mehchiné

South Slavey

Etymology

Borrowed from English machine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛ̀.ʰt͡ʃʰɪ̀.nɛ́(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: meh‧chi‧né

Noun

mehchiné (stem -mehchiné-)

1. lorry, truck

Inflection

Possessive inflection of mehchiné (-mehchiné)

		singular	plural
1st person		semehchiné	naxemehchiné
2nd person		nemehchiné
3rd person	1)	—	gimehchiné
	2)	memehchiné	gomehchiné
4th person		yemehchiné
reflexive	sp.	ɂedemehchiné	kedemehchiné
	unsp.	demehchiné
reciprocal		—	ɂełemehchiné
indefinite		ɂemehchiné
areal		gomehchiné

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