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