pi-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

Choctaw

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw pi-

Prefix

pi- (class II first-person paucal)

1. the direct object of an active transitive verb

   us (few)

2. the subject of a stative intransitive verb

   we (few)

3. indicates possession of a noun

   our (we few's)

Usage notes

Class II person markers are used for possession only for a small set of words, mostly including kinship terms and body parts.

Inflection

Choctaw Person Markers

			class I			class II		class III		class N		imperative
			+s	+C	+V	+C/i	+a/o	+C	+V	+C	+V	+C	+V
first-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	si-	a̱-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial						-sa-	-sam-
	paucal		ī-		il-	pi-		pi̱-	pim-	kī-	kil-
	plural					hapi-		hapi̱-	hapim-
second-person	singular		is-	ish-		chi-		chi̱-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		has-	hash-		hachi-		hachi̱-	hachim-	hachik-		ho-	oh-
third-person			∅			∅		i̱-	im-	ik-

Curripaco

Prefix

pi-

1. second person singular agent marker

References

• Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, →ISBN, page 398

Ojibwe

Preverb

pi-

1. Alternative form of bi- (when not in word initial position)

   Gaawiin ganage gii-pi-izhaasiin.

   He really didn't come.

Taos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi/

Prefix

pi-

1. (transitive) first-person singular subject + third-person inverse number object

Prefix

pi-

1. (formative) inverse number object prefix (on verbs with plural subjects) (compare the pę- allomorph)

Alternative forms

• pę-

Derived terms

• ipi- (ąpęn-)
• mąpi- (mąpęn-)

Tocharian B

Verb

pi-

1. to sing