mbehah

South Slavey

Etymology

From mbeh (“knife”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ᵐbɛ̀.hà(h)]
  • Hyphenation: mbe‧hah

Noun

mbehah (stem -mbehah-)

  1. diminutive of mbeh: small knife

Inflection

Possessive inflection of mbehah (-mbéhah)
singular plural
1st person sembéhah naxembéhah
2nd person nembéhah
3rd person 1) — gimbéhah
2) membéhah gombéhah
4th person yembéhah
reflexive sp. ɂedembéhah kedembéhah
unsp. dembéhah
reciprocal — ɂełembéhah
indefinite ɂembéhah
areal gombéhah

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 250
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