noohtsi

South Slavey

Etymology

Cognate with Dogrib nǫ̀htsı̨.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nò̞ː.ʰt͡sʰì(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: nooh‧tsi

Noun

noohtsi (stem -noohtsi-)

1. God

Inflection

Possessive inflection of noohtsi (-noohtsié)

		singular	plural
1st person		senoohtsié	naxenoohtsié
2nd person		nenoohtsié
3rd person	1)	—	ginoohtsié
	2)	menoohtsié	gonoohtsié
4th person		yenoohtsié
reflexive	sp.	ɂedenoohtsié	kedenoohtsié
	unsp.	denoohtsié
reciprocal		—	ɂełenoohtsié
indefinite		ɂenoohtsié
areal		gonoohtsié

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 213