tsáah

South Slavey

Etymology

From tsá (beaver) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sʰáː(h)]
  • Hyphenation: tsáah

Noun

tsáah (stem -tsáah-)

  1. diminutive of tsá: little beaver

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsáah (-tsáah)
singular plural
1st person setsáah naxetsáah
2nd person netsáah
3rd person 1) gitsáah
2) metsáah gotsáah
4th person yetsáah
reflexive sp. ɂedetsáah kedetsáah
unsp. detsáah
reciprocal ɂełetsáah
indefinite ɂetsáah
areal gotsáah

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 241