jíyetú

South Slavey

Etymology

From jíye (“berry”) +‎ tu (“water”) +‎ -◌́.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɪ́.jè.tʰú(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: jí‧ye‧tú

Noun

jíyetú (stem -jíyetú-)

1. wine

Inflection

Possessive inflection of jíyetú (-jíyetú)

		singular	plural
1st person		sejíyetú	naxejíyetú
2nd person		nejíyetú
3rd person	1)	—	gijíyetú
	2)	mejíyetú	gojíyetú
4th person		yejíyetú
reflexive	sp.	ɂedejíyetú	kedejíyetú
	unsp.	dejíyetú
reciprocal		—	ɂełejíyetú
indefinite		ɂejíyetú
areal		gojíyetú
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