mbeh

Dogrib

Noun

mbeh

1. knife

South Slavey

Alternative forms

• (Fort Liard) meh

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *weˑš. Cognate with Navajo béésh and Dogrib mbeh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ᵐbɛ̀(h)]
• Hyphenation: mbeh

Noun

mbeh (stem -mbeh-)

1. knife

Inflection

Possessive inflection of mbeh (-mbehé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sembehé	naxembehé
2nd person		nembehé
3rd person	1)	—	gimbehé
	2)	membehé	gombehé
4th person		yembehé
reflexive	sp.	ɂedembehé	kedembehé
	unsp.	dembehé
reciprocal		—	ɂełembehé
indefinite		ɂembehé
areal		gombehé
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.

Derived terms

• mbehah

 

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 11