kʼáy

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qʼa̓yʼ. Cognates include Navajo kʼaiʼ and Dogrib k'àa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʼáj], [kʼáʒ]
  • Hyphenation: kʼáy

Noun

kʼáy (stem -kʼáy-)

  1. willow

Inflection

Possessive inflection of kʼáy (-kʼáyé)
singular plural
1st person sekʼáyé naxekʼáyé
2nd person nekʼáyé
3rd person 1) — gikʼáyé
2) mekʼáyé gokʼáyé
4th person yekʼáyé
reflexive sp. ɂedekʼáyé kedekʼáyé
unsp. dekʼáyé
reciprocal — ɂełekʼáyé
indefinite ɂekʼáyé
areal gokʼáyé

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 96
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