pi-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

Choctaw

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From pi- +‎ i- (“he, she, it; him, her, it; his, her, its”)

Prefix

pi- (before vowels pim-, class III first-person paucal)

1. the indirect object of an active transitive verb

   to us (few), for us (few)

2. the subject of an intransitive affective verb

   we (few)

3. the direct object of a small set of transitive verbs mostly dealing with affect, communication and intimacy

   us (few)

4. indicates possession of a noun

   our (we few's)

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-

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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

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Ojibwe

Prefix

pi-

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

   Gaawiin ganage gii-pi-izhaasiin.

   He really didn't come.

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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-)

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Tocharian B

Verb

pi-

1. to sing