tsǫ́

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]. Cognates include Navajo chąąʼ and Dogrib tsǫ̀.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʰṍ̞(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: tsǫ́

Noun

tsǫ́ (stem -tsón-)

1. excrement, feces

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsǫ́ (-tsóné)

		singular	plural
1st person		setsóné	naxetsóné
2nd person		netsóné
3rd person	1)	—	gitsóné
	2)	metsóné	gotsóné
4th person		yetsóné
reflexive	sp.	ɂedetsóné	kedetsóné
	unsp.	detsóné
reciprocal		—	ɂełetsóné
indefinite		ɂetsóné
areal		gotsóné

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 218