denekéhle

South Slavey

Etymology

From dene (“human”) +‎ -kéhle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛ̀.nɛ̀.kʰɛ́.ʰɮɛ̀(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: de‧ne‧ké‧hle

Noun

denekéhle (stem -denekéhle-)

1. Slavey person

Inflection

Possessive inflection of denekéhle (-denekéhleé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sedenekéhleé	naxedenekéhleé
2nd person		nedenekéhleé
3rd person	1)	—	gidenekéhleé
	2)	medenekéhleé	godenekéhleé
4th person		yedenekéhleé
reflexive	sp.	ɂededenekéhleé	kededenekéhleé
	unsp.	dedenekéhleé
reciprocal		—	ɂełedenekéhleé
indefinite		ɂedenekéhleé
areal		godenekéhleé
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 236