shį

See also: Appendix:Variations of "shi"

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *xʸən. Cognates include Navajo sin and Dogrib sı̨.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃĩ̀(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: shį

Noun

shį (stem -yin-)

  1. song

Inflection

Possessive inflection of shį (-yiné)
singular plural
1st person seyiné naxeyiné
2nd person neyiné
3rd person 1) — giyiné
2) meyiné goyiné
4th person yeyiné
reflexive sp. ɂedeyiné kedeyiné
unsp. deyiné
reciprocal — ɂełeyiné
indefinite ɂeyiné
areal goyiné

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 213
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