kʼų́

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *qʼu̓ˑnʼ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʼṹ(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: kʼų́

Noun

kʼų́ (stem -kʼų́-)

  1. roe

Inflection

Possessive inflection of kʼų́ (-kʼų́é)
singular plural
1st person sekʼų́é naxekʼų́é
2nd person nekʼų́é
3rd person 1) gikʼų́é
2) mekʼų́é gokʼų́é
4th person yekʼų́é
reflexive sp. ɂedekʼų́é kedekʼų́é
unsp. dekʼų́é
reciprocal ɂełekʼų́é
indefinite ɂekʼų́é
areal gokʼų́é

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 222