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xah

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Dogrib

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Noun

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xah

  1. goose

South Slavey

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Etymology

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From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αx̣. Cognates include Dogrib xah.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [xà(h)]
  • Hyphenation: xah

Noun

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xah (stem -gha-)

  1. goose

Inflection

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Possessive inflection of xah (-ghaá)
singular plural
1st person seghaá naxeghaá
2nd person neghaá
3rd person 1) — gighaá
2) meghaá goghaá
4th person yeghaá
reflexive sp. ɂedeghaá kedeghaá
unsp. deghaá
reciprocal — ɂełeghaá
indefinite ɂeghaá
areal goghaá

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

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  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 95
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