cheekuah
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South Slavey[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cheeku (“young man”) + -ah.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cheekuah (stem -cheekuah-)
Inflection[edit]
Possessive inflection of cheekuah (-cheekúah)
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | secheekúah | naxecheekúah | |
| 2nd person | necheekúah | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gicheekúah |
| 2) | mecheekúah | gocheekúah | |
| 4th person | yecheekúah | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedecheekúah | kedecheekúah |
| unsp. | decheekúah | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełecheekúah | |
| indefinite | ɂecheekúah | ||
| areal | gocheekúah | ||
| 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 18