tthʼih

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tsʼiˑxʸ. Cognates include Navajo tsʼíʼii and Dogrib kwʼih.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡θʼì(h)]
  • Hyphenation: tthʼih

Noun

tthʼih (stem -tthʼih-)

  1. mosquito

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tthʼih (-tthʼihé)
singular plural
1st person setthʼihé naxetthʼihé
2nd person netthʼihé
3rd person 1) — gitthʼihé
2) metthʼihé gotthʼihé
4th person yetthʼihé
reflexive sp. ɂedetthʼihé kedetthʼihé
unsp. detthʼihé
reciprocal — ɂełetthʼihé
indefinite ɂetthʼihé
areal gotthʼihé

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 38
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