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
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