kǫ́tu

South Slavey

Etymology

From kǫ́ (“fire”) +‎ tu (“water”), probably a calque of an Algonquian language, whence also English firewater.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʰṍ̞.tʰù(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: kǫ́‧tu

Noun

kǫ́tu (stem -kǫ́tu-)

1. alcohol

Inflection

Possessive inflection of kǫ́tu (-kǫ́tué)

		singular	plural
1st person		sekǫ́tué	naxekǫ́tué
2nd person		nekǫ́tué
3rd person	1)	—	gikǫ́tué
	2)	mekǫ́tué	gokǫ́tué
4th person		yekǫ́tué
reflexive	sp.	ɂedekǫ́tué	kedekǫ́tué
	unsp.	dekǫ́tué
reciprocal		—	ɂełekǫ́tué
indefinite		ɂekǫ́tué
areal		gokǫ́tué
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 213