tsáah

South Slavey

Etymology

From tsá (“beaver”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡sʰàː(h)]
• Hyphenation: tsáah

Noun

tsáah (stem -tsáah-)

1. diminutive of tsá: little beaver

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tsáah (-tsáah)

		singular	plural
1st person		setsáah	naxetsáah
2nd person		netsáah
3rd person	1)	—	gitsáah
	2)	metsáah	gotsáah
4th person		yetsáah
reflexive	sp.	ɂedetsáah	kedetsáah
	unsp.	detsáah
reciprocal		—	ɂełetsáah
indefinite		ɂetsáah
areal		gotsáah
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 241