pi̱-
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"
Choctaw
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pi- + i̱- (“he, she, it; him, her, it; his, her, its”).
Prefix
[edit]pi̱- (before vowels pim-, class III first-person paucal)
- the indirect object of an active transitive verb
- to us (few), for us (few)
- the subject of an intransitive affective verb
- we (few)
- the direct object of a small set of transitive verbs mostly dealing with affect, communication and intimacy
- us (few)
- indicates possession of a noun
- our (we few's)
Inflection
[edit]Choctaw Person Markers
class I | class II | class III | class N | imperative | |||||||||
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+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- |