cheekuah

South Slavey

Etymology

From cheeku (“young man”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰɛ̀ː.kʷʰù.à(h)]
  • Hyphenation: chee‧ku‧a

Noun

cheekuah (stem -cheekuah-)

  1. boy

Inflection

Possessive inflection of cheekuah (-cheekúah)
singular plural
1st person secheekúah naxecheekúah
2nd person necheekúah
3rd person 1) — gicheekúah
2) mecheekúah gocheekúah
4th person yecheekúah
reflexive sp. ɂedecheekúah kedecheekúah
unsp. decheekúah
reciprocal — ɂełecheekúah
indefinite ɂecheekúah
areal gocheekúah

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 18
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