Reconstruction:Proto-Tungusic/-si
Proto-Tungusic edit
Etymology edit
Suffix variant of *si (“thou, you”).
Suffix edit
*-si
- second-person singular possessive suffix.
Derived terms edit
- *-nsi (“second-person singular aorist ending”)
See also edit
- *-bi (“first-person singular possessive suffix”)
- *-ni (“third-person singular possessive suffix”)
- *-bu(n) (“first-person plural possessive suffix”)
Descendants edit
- Tungusic:
References edit
- ^ Andreas Hölzl (2023) “'What's your name?' in Tungusic and beyond”, in Tungusic languages: Past and present[1], page 89
- ^ Natalia Aralova & Brigitte Pakendorf (2023) “Non-canonical possessive constructions in Negidal and other Tungusic languages: a new analysis of the so-called “alienable possession” suffix”, in Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences[2], page 5