pmáy

Definition:

They.

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Function:

Nominative plural.

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Examples:

1. pmáy pawiyánawita ku paˀayáyata ‘they will arrive and have fun’;
2. áwa miyánašma ana pmáy pamániyayišana waq̓íšwit čɨ́nki tiičámki ‘it was their (WWII) children who were giving their lives for this country’;
3. ana pmáy pattáwax̣šana čná tiičámpa ‘they who were growing up on this land’;
4. ana pmáy papayúwiša ‘they who are sick’;
5. aš pmáy pasápsik̓ʷašana ‘they who were teaching me’;
6. ana pmáy pawá sápsik̓ʷani ‘they who are taught’;
7. ana iwá pmaksásim ‘they who are the only ones’;

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See more:

pa- ‘they’ (pronominal prefix);

pmáyč̓a ‘they too’;

pmaksá ‘they alone’;

pmáysɨm ‘they only’;

pmáyx̣i ‘they similarly’;

pmáyx̣uš ‘they first’.

[NE pmá; NW pmák; NP /ˀimé/ ‘they, you (plural)’.]