kǫ́tu
South Slavey edit
Etymology edit
From kǫ́ (“fire”) + tu (“water”), probably a calque of an Algonquian language, whence also English firewater.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kǫ́tu (stem -kǫ́tu-)
Inflection edit
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 edit
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213