kǫ́tu

South Slavey

Etymology

From kǫ́ (“fire”) +‎ tu (“water”), probably a calque of an Algonquian language, whence also English firewater.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʷʰṍ̞.tʰù(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: kǫ́‧tu

Noun

kǫ́tu (stem -kǫ́tu-)

  1. alcohol

Inflection

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

  • Keren Rice (1989), A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213
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