tthʼih

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tsʼiˑxʸ. Cognates include Navajo tsʼíʼii and Dogrib kwʼih.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡θʼì(h)]
• Hyphenation: tthʼih

Noun

tthʼih (stem -tthʼih-)

1. mosquito

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tthʼih (-tthʼihé)

		singular	plural
1st person		setthʼihé	naxetthʼihé
2nd person		netthʼihé
3rd person	1)	—	gitthʼihé
	2)	metthʼihé	gotthʼihé
4th person		yetthʼihé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedetthʼihé	kedetthʼihé
	unsp.	detthʼihé
reciprocal		—	ɂełetthʼihé
indefinite		ɂetthʼihé
areal		gotthʼihé

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 38