sámba

South Slavey

Etymology

Cognates include Dogrib sǫǫ̀mba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sá.ᵐbà(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: sám‧ba

Noun

sámba (stem -sámba-)

1. money

Inflection

Possessive inflection of sámba (-sámbaá)

		singular	plural
1st person		sesámbaá	naxesámbaá
2nd person		nesámbaá
3rd person	1)	—	gisámbaá
	2)	mesámbaá	gosámbaá
4th person		yesámbaá
reflexive	sp.	ɂedesámbaá	kedesámbaá
	unsp.	desámbaá
reciprocal		—	ɂełesámbaá
indefinite		ɂesámbaá
areal		gosámbaá

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 64