denekéhle

South Slavey

Etymology

From dene (human) +‎ -kéhle.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɛ̀.nɛ̀.cʰɛ́.ʰɮɛ̀(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: de‧ne‧ké‧hle

Noun

denekéhle (stem -denekéhle-)

  1. Slavey person

Inflection

Possessive inflection of denekéhle (-denekéhle)
singular plural
1st person sedenekéhle naxedenekéhle
2nd person nedenekéhle
3rd person 1) gidenekéhle
2) medenekéhle godenekéhle
4th person yedenekéhle
reflexive sp. ɂededenekéhle kededenekéhle
unsp. dedenekéhle
reciprocal ɂełedenekéhle
indefinite ɂedenekéhle
areal godenekéhle

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 236