kʼe-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ke"

Dena'ina

Etymology

Compare Ahtna cʼ-, Wailaki chʼi-, Navajo ji-

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʼə/

Prefix

kʼe-

  1. Marks an indefinite verbal subject; something
    ‎kʼe- + ‎chegh (“to cry”) → ‎kʼechegh (“something is crying”)
  2. Marks an indefinite verbal object; something
    chikʼdałyuq ― he killed something
  3. Marks an unspecified agent of a passive verb; by something
    chikʼdalyuq ― he got killed by something
  4. Appears thematically in many verbs
  5. (With the reflexive prefix hu- and the l-classifier) Creates verbs with a sense of 'pretend to be'
    ‎kʼe- + ‎dichin (“he's hungry”) → ‎hukʼdilchin (“he's pretending to be hungry”)

See also

Dena'ina verbal subject prefixes
singular plural
1st person esh- chʼe-
2nd person n-, i- eh-
3rd person ∅- qe-
Non-human ye-
Indefinite human qe-
Indefinite non-human kʼe-
Unknown chʼe-
Areal/temporal/abstract qe-

References

  • Tenenbaum, Joan Marsha (1978), Morphology and Semantics of the Tanaina Verb, Columbia University, pages 62-66
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