tlįcho

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See also: Tłįchǫ

South Slavey

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tlį (“dog”) +‎ -cho. This is a common pattern among Native Americans (compare Plains Cree mistatim), referring to the reintroduction of the horse by the Europeans.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: tlį‧cho

Noun

tlįcho (stem -tlįcho-)

  1. horse

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tlįcho (-tlįchoó)
singular plural
1st person setlįchoó naxetlįchoó
2nd person netlįchoó
3rd person 1) — gitlįchoó
2) metlįchoó gotlįchoó
4th person yetlįchoó
reflexive sp. ɂedetlįchoó kedetlįchoó
unsp. detlįchoó
reciprocal — ɂełetlįchoó
indefinite ɂetlįchoó
areal gotlįchoó
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 35
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