tsǫ́

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ts̆ʷa̓ˑnʼ. Cognates include Navajo chąąʼ and Dogrib tsǫ̀.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sʰṍ̞(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: tsǫ́

Noun

tsǫ́ (stem -tsón-)

  1. excrement, feces

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsǫ́ (-tsóné)
singular plural
1st person setsóné naxetsóné
2nd person netsóné
3rd person 1) — gitsóné
2) metsóné gotsóné
4th person yetsóné
reflexive sp. ɂedetsóné kedetsóné
unsp. detsóné
reciprocal — ɂełetsóné
indefinite ɂetsóné
areal gotsóné

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 218
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