chǫ

Dogrib

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *kʸan. Cognates include South Slavey chǫ and Ahtna caan.

Noun

chǫ

  1. rain

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *kʸan. Cognates include Dogrib chǫ and Ahtna caan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰõ̞̀(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: chǫ

Noun

chǫ (stem -chon-)

  1. rain

Inflection

Possessive inflection of chǫ (-choné)
singular plural
1st person sechoné naxechoné
2nd person nechoné
3rd person 1) — gichoné
2) mechoné gochoné
4th person yechoné
reflexive sp. ɂedechoné kedechoné
unsp. dechoné
reciprocal — ɂełechoné
indefinite ɂechoné
areal gochoné

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
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