tleh

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Pronoun

tleh (plural tleihqueh)

  1. (interrogative) what

References

  • Michel Launey with Christopher Mackay (2011), An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Amazon Kindle: Cambridge University Press, page Loc 1452

South Slavey

Etymology

Cognate with Dogrib tłe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ɬʰɛ̀(h)]
  • Hyphenation: tleh

Noun

tleh (stem -tleh-)

  1. lard

Inflection

Possessive inflection of tleh (-tlehé)
singular plural
1st person setlehé naxetlehé
2nd person netlehé
3rd person 1) — gitlehé
2) metlehé gotlehé
4th person yetlehé
reflexive sp. ɂedetlehé kedetlehé
unsp. detlehé
reciprocal — ɂełetlehé
indefinite ɂetlehé
areal gotlehé

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 38