tsáah

South Slavey

Etymology

From tsá (“beaver”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sʰáː(h)]
  • Hyphenation: tsáah

Noun

tsáah (stem -tsáah-)

  1. diminutive of tsá: little beaver

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsáah (-tsáah)
singular plural
1st person setsáah naxetsáah
2nd person netsáah
3rd person 1) — gitsáah
2) metsáah gotsáah
4th person yetsáah
reflexive sp. ɂedetsáah kedetsáah
unsp. detsáah
reciprocal — ɂełetsáah
indefinite ɂetsáah
areal gotsáah

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 241
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