tsʼahle

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tšʼəx̣tɬʼ. Cognates include Navajo chʼał and Dogrib ts’ali.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡sʼà.ʰɮɛ̀(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: tsʼah‧le

Noun

tsʼahle (stem -tsʼahle-)

  1. frog

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsʼahle (-tsʼahlé)
singular plural
1st person setsʼahlé naxetsʼahlé
2nd person netsʼahlé
3rd person 1) — gitsʼahlé
2) metsʼahlé gotsʼahlé
4th person yetsʼahlé
reflexive sp. ɂedetsʼahlé kedetsʼahlé
unsp. detsʼahlé
reciprocal — ɂełetsʼahlé
indefinite ɂetsʼahlé
areal gotsʼahlé

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 93
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