jíye

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *giʼgə. Cognates include Navajo didzé and Dogrib jìe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃɪ́.jè(ʔ)], [t͡ʃɪ́.ʒè(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: jí‧ye

Noun

jíye (stem -jíye-)

  1. berry, fruit

Inflection

Possessive inflection of jíye (-jiyeé)
singular plural
1st person sejiyeé naxejiyeé
2nd person nejiyeé
3rd person 1) — gijiyeé
2) mejiyeé gojiyeé
4th person yejiyeé
reflexive sp. ɂedejiyeé kedejiyeé
unsp. dejiyeé
reciprocal — ɂełejiyeé
indefinite ɂejiyeé
areal gojiyeé

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 92
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