í-

Function:

Emphatic. This historical prefix is built into the pronouns.

Examples:

  1. Frozen in
    1. ín ‘I’;
    2. ím ‘you’;
    3. íčɨn ‘to this’;
    4. íkʷɨn ‘to that’;
    5. ímɨn ‘where to?’;
    6. ičiškíin ‘in this language’.
  2. Largely productive in NW:
    1. čáwnaš átq̓ix̣ša ikuunák áyatnan ‘I do not want that exact woman’ (Jacobs 1929:224:8);
    2. cf. kuunák Spilyáy itk̓ína ‘Coyote watched that’ (Jacobs 1929:230:14).

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[NP /ˀí-/ with 1st person, /ˀi-/ with 2nd and 3rd person and interrogative pronouns.]