tsé
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tse"
French
Alternative forms
- t'sais, tsey
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tse/
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Contraction
tsé
Jicarilla
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Navajo tsé.
Noun
tsé
Navajo
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *tseˑ, from Proto-Na-Dene *caj. Cognates include Western Apache tséé and Chiricahua tsé and possibly, more distantly Ket ты’сь.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sʰɛ́/
Noun
tsé
Inflection
| 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
- atłʼizh tsé (“gallstone”)
- chéchʼil (“oak”)
- tsé bee akʼaashí (“grindstone”)
- tsé bee bił daʼdildoní (“dynamite”)
- tsé bee hahaʼníłí (“rock prize, crowbar”)
- tsé béésh bee daakʼaashígíí (“corundum”)
- tsé díkʼǫ́ǫ́zh (“alum”)
- tsé dizéígíí (“sandstone”)
- tsé dootłʼizh (“peridot”)
- tsé hahaʼníłídi (“stone quarry”)
- tsé naalkaah (“petrogeology”)
- tsé naatʼaʼí (“asteroid”)
- tsé nááwołí (“grindstone”)
- tsé náázhoozhí (“rockslide”)
- tsé nádleehé (“concrete”)
- tsé nahalinii (“stonefish”)
- tsé nástáán (“petrified wood”)
- tsé nidaaz (“iron ore”)
- tsé noolchʼoshii (“canyon wren”)
- tsé noolchʼoshiiłbáhí (“rock wren”)
- tsé sikaad (“pavement”)
- tsé yooʼáłii (“snout beetle”)
- tsédááʼ (“brink of a precipice”)
- tsédahiilínígíí (“waterfall”)
- tsédláád (“rock lichen”)
- tsééh
- tséghą́ą́ʼ (“on top of the rock”)
- tséghádiʼnídíínii (“quartz, rock crystal”)
- tséghániłchʼi (“common purselane”)
- tsehégod (“stump”)
- tséjééʼ (“amber”)
- tsékʼi (“on a stone”)
- tsékʼiz (“crevice in rock”)
- tsénííʼ (“hole in rock”)
- tsénił (“axe”)
- tsésǫʼ (“glass, mica”)
- tsétah (“among the rocks”)
- tsétah dibé (“bighorn sheep”)
- tsétah dibé bichʼil (“Epilobium spicatum”)
- tsétátʼah (“rock ledge”)
- tsétaʼ (“between rocks”)
- tsétʼees (“griddle”)
- tsétłʼááh (“under the rock, rock overhang”)
- tsétłʼééł (“flint igniter”)
- tsétsį́įdi (“at the base of a cliff”)
- tsétsíín (“base of a cliff”)
- tsétsoh (“boulder”)
- tsétsohkʼįįʼ (“snowberry, syringa”)
- tsetsʼági (“micah”)
- tséyaa hataał (“common mustard, rutabaga, rape, Swedish turnip”)
- tsézéí (“gravel”)
- tsézhin (“lava”)
- tséʼáwózí (“flint”)
- tséʼázhííh (“rock sage”)
- tséʼédzis (“depression on surface of rock”)
- tséʼésdaazii (“mountain mahogany”)
- tséʼésgízii (“western serviceberry”)
- tséʼéstʼéí (“pancake”)
- tséʼétʼą́ʼii (“palette”)
Proper nouns
- Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii (“Monument Valley”)
- Tsé Binááyołí (“Matthews Peak, Arizona”)
- Tsé Bitʼaʼí (“Shiprock, New Mexico”)
- Tsé Chʼéchiiʼ (“Mesita, New Mexico”)
- Tsé Ííʼáhí (“Four Corners; Standing Rock; Church Rock”)
- Tsé Lání (“Salina, Arizona”)
- Tsé Łichííʼ (“Atarque, New Mexico”)
- Tsé Naagháii (“Traveling Rock Monster”)
- Tsé Naajiin (“Bennett Peak, New Mexico”)
- Tsé Náhádzoh (“Twin Lakes, New Mexico”)
- Tsé Nástánii (“Petrified Forest, Arizona”)
- Tsé Náshchiiʼ (“Hunter's Point, Arizona”)
- Tséhootsooí (“Fort Defiance, Arizona”)
- Tsézhįįh Deezhlį́ (“Black Rock, New Mexico”)
- Tséʼałnáoztʼiʼí (“Sanostee, New Mexico”)
References
- Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, pages 731-32.
- Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 598
Western Apache
Noun
tsé
- alternative form of tséé