tsé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tse"

French

Alternative forms

• t’sais, tsey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tse/

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Contraction

tsé

1. (Quebec) Contracted form of tu sais; you know

Jicarilla

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Navajo tsé.

Noun

tsé

1. rock, stone, boulder

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Chiricahua tsé and possibly Ket ты’сь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɛ́/

Noun

tsé

1. rock, stone, boulder

Inflection

Possessives of tsé

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	sitseʼ	nihitseʼ	danihitseʼ
2nd person	nitseʼ	nihitseʼ	danihitseʼ
3rd person	bitseʼ
4th person (3o)	yitseʼ
4th person (3a)	hatseʼ
Indefinite (3i)	atseʼ

Derived terms

• tsé áwózí (“flint”)
• Tsé Bitʼaʼí (“Shiprock, New Mexico”)
• tsé dizéígíí (“sandstone”)
• tsé naalkaah (“petrogeology”)
• tsé naatʼaʼí (“asteroid”)
• tsé nááwołí (“grindstone”)
• tsé náázhozhí (“rockslide”)
• tsé nádleehé (“concrete”)
• Tsé Náhádzoh (“Twin Lakes, New Mexico”)
• tsé nahalinii (“stonefish”)
• tsé nástáán (“petrified wood”)
• Tsé Náshchiiʼ (“Hunter's Point, Arizona”)
• tsé nidaaz (“iron ore”)
• tsé noolchʼoshii (“canyon wren”)
• tsé noolchʼoshiiłbáhí (“rock wren”)
• tsé sikaad (“pavement”)
• tsééh
• tsénííʼ (“hole in rock”)
• tsénił (“axe”)
• tsésǫʼ (“glass, mica”)
• tsétah dibé (“bighorn sheep”)
• tsétah dibé bichʼil (“Epilobium spicatum”)
• tsétaʼ (“between rocks”)
• tsétʼees (“griddle”)
• tsétłʼééł (“flint igniter”)
• tsétsíín (“base of a cliff”)
• tsétsoh (“boulder”)
• tsétsohkʼįįʼ (“snowberry, syringa”)
• tséyaa hataał (“common mustard, rutabaga, rape, Swedish turnip”)
• tsézéí (“gravel”)
• Tsézhįįh Deezhlį́ (“Black Rock, New Mexico”)
• tsézhin (“lava”)
• tséʼézhííh (“rock sage”)

Western Apache

Noun

tsé

1. Alternative form of tséé