tsʼélį

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South Slavey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: tsʼé‧lį

Noun

tsʼélį (stem -tsʼélin-)

  1. lass

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsʼélį (-tsʼéliné)
singular plural
1st person setsʼéliné naxetsʼéliné
2nd person netsʼéliné
3rd person 1) — gitsʼéliné
2) metsʼéliné gotsʼéliné
4th person yetsʼéliné
reflexive sp. ɂedetsʼéliné kedetsʼéliné
unsp. detsʼéliné
reciprocal — ɂełetsʼéliné
indefinite ɂetsʼéliné
areal gotsʼéliné
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 264
  • “woman”, in Dene Yatié Kʼę́ę́ Ahsíi Yatsʼuuzi Gha Edįhtłʼéh Kátłʼodehche [South Slavey Topical Dictionary Kátłʼodehche dialect]‎, South Slave Divisional Education Council, 2009, page 7
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