tthe

South Slavey

Alternative forms

• (Fort Liard) tse

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Navajo tsé and Dogrib kwe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡θʰɛ̀(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: tthe

Noun

tthe (stem -tthe-)

1. stone

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tthe (-ttheé)

		singular	plural
1st person		settheé	naxettheé
2nd person		nettheé
3rd person	1)	—	gittheé
	2)	mettheé	gottheé
4th person		yettheé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedettheé	kedettheé
	unsp.	dettheé
reciprocal		—	ɂełettheé
indefinite		ɂettheé
areal		gottheé

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

• tthecho

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 91