Zha
Engála
Etymology
Clipping of zhendza (“opossum”) .
Pronunciation
Orthographic Form
z
i
aa
Pronoun
zha (plural sas)
- it; third person singular animate (non-rabbit) personal pronoun (plain)
Inflection
| Engála Personal Pronouns | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||||||
| 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person | |||
| Rabbit | Other Animate | Inanimate | ||||||
| Plain | un | is | me | zha | tu | we | sis | sas |
| Emphatic | chalyun | chalis | chaime | chaizha | chaidu | chaiwe | chaisís | chaisás |
Creation and Usage Notes
| It was decided that the first truly other animals the rabbits would've encountered would be the opossums, and so the third person non-rabbit pronoun came from the Engála word for "opossum". (The mice they would see more as their own kind.)
-David J. Peterson 12:31, 3 September 2024 (PDT) |