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Similar to the -er suffix in English, the -í suffix attached to a verb means "the one who does ".
Thus naaʼnaʼ(“he/she/it crawls about”) + -í ("-er") produces naaʼnaʼí ("the one that crawls, crawler"). Prefixing this with chidí(“car”) produces chidí naaʼnaʼí(“caterpillar tractor”).
Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “-í”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “-í”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “-í”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7), Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
Inherited from Vulgar Latin*-īī < Latin-īvī, first-person singular present perfect active indicative ending of the fourth conjugation, later generalized to almost all non-first conjugation verbs.
Suffix
-í (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)
first person preterite ending of regular -er and -ir verbs