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Dogrib
Noun
mbeh
- knife
South Slavey
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *weˑš. Cognate with Navajo béésh and Dogrib mbeh.
Pronunciation
Noun
mbeh (stem -mbeh-)
- knife
Inflection
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.
Derived terms
References
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 11