Zero vowel ablaut base found in oblique cases of the proximate demonstrative (čí ‘this’). čɨ́nɨm ‘this’ (ergative); čɨnmí ‘of this’ (genitive); íčɨn ‘to this’ (allative); čɨ́ni ‘from this’ (ablative); čná ‘in this’ (locative); čɨ́nki ‘with this’ (instrumental); čníin ‘on that side’; čɨ́ł ‘this many, this much’; čɨ́ma ‘these’ (plural absolute); čáy ‘in this direction, this way’. For other ablaut bases see čáan ‘toward this’; čiin-. For absolute see čí. [NP /k´n/.]
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