sashno
Appearance
Choctaw
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]sashno (first-person singular)
- (Mississippi, emphatic) I, me
- (Mississippi) mine
Usage notes
[edit]- This pronoun was formed analogously from the class II pronominal prefixes (see sa-) + -shno, extrapolated form the other emphatic pronouns. It's mostly used by younger speakers of Mississippi Choctaw. It's considered ungrammatical to other speakers.
- Choctaw usually doesn't use personal pronouns, instead relying on pronominal affixes.
Inflection
[edit]emphatic | possessive‡ | |||||
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singular | paucal | plural | singular | paucal | plural | |
first-person | ano sashno† |
pishno | hapishno | ammi | pimmi | hapimmi |
second-person | chishno | hachishno | chimmi | hachimmi | ||
third-person | yamma | ilap | ||||
† Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard. ‡ First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead. |