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tsʼélį

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South Slavey

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [t͡sʼɛ́.ɮĩ̀(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: tsʼé‧lį

Noun

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tsʼélį (stem -tsʼélin-)

  1. lass

Inflection

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Possessive inflection of tsʼélį (-tsʼéliné)
singular plural
1st person setsʼéliné naxetsʼéliné
2nd person netsʼéliné
3rd person 1) gitsʼéliné
2) metsʼéliné gotsʼéliné
4th person yetsʼéliné
reflexive sp. ɂedetsʼéliné kedetsʼéliné
unsp. detsʼéliné
reciprocal ɂełetsʼéliné
indefinite ɂetsʼéliné
areal gotsʼéliné

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.

Derived terms

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References

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  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 264
  • “woman”, in Dene Yatié Kʼę́ę́ Ahsíi Yatsʼuuzi Gha Edįhtłʼéh Kátłʼodehche [South Slavey Topical Dictionary Kátłʼodehche dialect]‎[1], South Slave Divisional Education Council, 2009, page 7