tsé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tse"

French

Alternative forms

• t’sais, tsey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tse/

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Contraction

tsé

1. (Quebec) Contracted form of tu sais; you know

Jicarilla

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Navajo tsé.

Noun

tsé

1. rock, stone, boulder

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Chiricahua tsé and possibly Ket ты’сь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sʰɛ́/

Noun

tsé

1. rock, stone, boulder

Inflection

possessives of tsé

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	sitseʼ	nihitseʼ	danihitseʼ
2nd person	nitseʼ	nihitseʼ	danihitseʼ
3rd person	bitseʼ
4th person (3o)	yitseʼ
4th person (3a)	hatseʼ
Indefinite (3i)	atseʼ

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Tsé Bitʼaʼí (“Shiprock, New Mexico”)
• tsé dizéígíí (“sandstone”)
• tsé naatʼaʼí (“asteroid”)
• tsé nahalinii (“stonefish”)
• tsé nástáán (“petrified wood”)
• tsésǫʼ
• tsééh

Western Apache

Noun

tsé

1. Alternative form of tséé