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Choctaw
Etymology
Cognate with Chickasaw pi-
Prefix
pi- (class II first-person paucal)
- the direct object of an active transitive verb
- us (few)
- the subject of a stative intransitive verb
- we (few)
- 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
Curripaco
Prefix
pi-
- 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-
- Alternative form of bi- (when not in word initial position)
Gaawiin ganage gii-pi-izhaasiin.- He really didn't come.
Taos
Pronunciation
Prefix
pi-
- (transitive) first-person singular subject + third-person inverse number object
Prefix
pi-
- (formative) inverse number object prefix (on verbs with plural subjects) (compare the pę- allomorph)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Tocharian B
Verb
pi-
- to sing