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xay

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See also: xây

Pacoh

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Etymology

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From Proto-Katuic *saj, *psaj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Eastern Bru pasâi, Semai ba'heeq, Jehai bhiʔ, Bahnar phĭ, Khmu [Cuang] biʔ, Mon ဖဲ.

For some other cases where Pacoh (and Katuic in general) has /s/ while other Austroasiatic languages have /h/, see also kixay (moon), pixay (otter). Although Shorto (2006) chiefly reconstructed these cognate sets with *h, Katuic is probably conservative, with other branches underwent debuccalization.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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xay 

  1. (of stomach) full; sated

South Slavey

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Etymology

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From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy. Cognates include Navajo hai and Dogrib xo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [xàj], [xàʒ]
  • Hyphenation: xay

Noun

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xay (stem -ghay-)

  1. winter
  2. (+ numeral) year

Inflection

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Possessive inflection of xay (-ghayé)
singular plural
1st person seghayé naxeghayé
2nd person neghayé
3rd person 1) gighayé
2) meghayé goghayé
4th person yeghayé
reflexive sp. ɂedeghayé kedeghayé
unsp. deghayé
reciprocal ɂełeghayé
indefinite ɂeghayé
areal goghayé

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 92

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Vietic *tʃeː (to grind, to husk rice). Related to chày.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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xay (𢴘)

  1. to grind; to crush; to pulverize

Derived terms

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Yámana

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Pronoun

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xay

  1. I