ɂeghá

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]. Cognate with Dogrib eghà.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʔɛ̀.ɣá(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: ɂe‧ghá

Noun

ɂeghá (stem -ghá-)

  1. hair

Inflection

Possessive inflection of ɂeghá (-ghá)
singular plural
1st person seghá naxeghá
2nd person neghá
3rd person 1) — gighá
2) meghá goghá
4th person yeghá
reflexive sp. ɂedeghá kedeghá
unsp. deghá
reciprocal — ɂełeghá
indefinite ɂeghá
areal goghá

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.

Derived terms

References

  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 167
  • “goghá”, in Dene Yatié Kʼę́ę́ Ahsíi Yatsʼuuzi Gha Edįhtłʼéh Kátłʼodehche [South Slavey Topical Dictionary Kátłʼodehche dialect]‎[1], South Slave Divisional Education Council, 2009
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