cheekuah

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South Slavey

Etymology

From cheeku (“young man”) +‎ -ah.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰɛ̀ː.kʰù.à(h)]
Hyphenation: chee‧ku‧a

Noun

cheekuah (stem -cheekuah-)

boy

Inflection

Possessive inflection of cheekuah (-cheekúah)

		singular	plural
1st person		secheekúah	naxecheekúah
2nd person		necheekúah	naxecheekúah
3rd person	¹⁾	—	gicheekúah
3rd person	²⁾	mecheekúah	gocheekúah
4th person		yecheekúah	gocheekúah
reflexive	sp.	ɂedecheekúah	kedecheekúah
reflexive	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

Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 18