mbeh

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Dogrib

Noun

mbeh

  1. knife

South Slavey

Alternative forms

  • (Fort Liard) meh

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *weˑš. Cognate with Navajo béésh and Dogrib mbeh.

Pronunciation

Noun

mbeh (stem -mbeh-)

  1. knife

Inflection

Possessive inflection of mbeh (-mbehé)
singular plural
1st person sembehé naxembehé
2nd person nembehé
3rd person 1) gimbehé
2) membehé gombehé
4th person yembehé
reflexive sp. ɂedembehé kedembehé
unsp. dembehé
reciprocal ɂełembehé
indefinite ɂembehé
areal gombehé

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