mbehah

South Slavey

Etymology

From mbeh (“knife”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbɛ̀.hà(h)]
• Hyphenation: mbe‧hah

Noun

mbehah (stem -mbehah-)

1. diminutive of mbeh: small knife

Inflection

Possessive inflection of mbehah (-mbéhah)

		singular	plural
1st person		sembéhah	naxembéhah
2nd person		nembéhah
3rd person	1)	—	gimbéhah
	2)	membéhah	gombéhah
4th person		yembéhah
reflexive	sp.	ɂedembéhah	kedembéhah
	unsp.	dembéhah
reciprocal		—	ɂełembéhah
indefinite		ɂembéhah
areal		gombéhah
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 250