tsʼahle

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tšʼəx̣tlʼ. Cognates include Navajo chʼął and Dogrib ts’ali.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʼà.ʰɮɛ̀(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: tsʼah‧le

Noun

tsʼahle (stem -tsʼahle-)

1. frog

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsʼahle (-tsʼahlé)

		singular	plural
1st person		setsʼahlé	naxetsʼahlé
2nd person		netsʼahlé
3rd person	1)	—	gitsʼahlé
	2)	metsʼahlé	gotsʼahlé
4th person		yetsʼahlé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedetsʼahlé	kedetsʼahlé
	unsp.	detsʼahlé
reciprocal		—	ɂełetsʼahlé
indefinite		ɂetsʼahlé
areal		gotsʼahlé

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 93