jíyetú

South Slavey

Etymology

From jíye (“berry”) +‎ tu (“water”) +‎ -◌́.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

jíyetú (stem -jíyetú-)

  1. wine

Inflection

Possessive inflection of jíyetú (-jíyetú)
singular plural
1st person sejíyetú naxejíyetú
2nd person nejíyetú
3rd person 1) — gijíyetú
2) mejíyetú gojíyetú
4th person yejíyetú
reflexive sp. ɂedejíyetú kedejíyetú
unsp. dejíyetú
reciprocal — ɂełejíyetú
indefinite ɂejíyetú
areal gojíyetú

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 213
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