pɨ́n

Definition:

He, she, it.


Function:

Nominative singular.


Examples:

pɨ́n ipáx̣ʷiya ‘he stole it’;

ana pɨ́n pináwaniča ‘she who named herself’;

ana k̓ʷapɨ́n pináwšuwaša pɨ́n ‘she who is getting herself ready’;

ku kúušx̣i pɨ́n át̓ita níix̣ ‘and in the same way it will cook well’;

ana kú itmíyuna pɨ́n ‘when he decided’;

ku ana kú ittáwax̣šana pɨ́n ‘and when he was growing up’;

ana šína pɨ́n išúkʷaša ‘whomever he knows’;

ana pɨ́n áyawaanaynaka túniši ‘his who drowned upstream’;

ana pɨ́n čáw iwɨ́šayča ‘he who passed away’;

k̓ʷáy iwá wínš ana pɨ́n iwiyánawiya watím ‘that is the man who arrived yesterday’;

k̓ʷáy iwá wínš ana pɨ́n iq̓ínušana paanáy watím ‘that is the man who saw him yesterday’;

pɨ́n k̓í inákwinata čikúuk ‘he will carry it (take the lead) today’;

ača kú iwá pɨ́n čúuš pyáp ƛ̓aax̣ʷmaamíyaw tkʷatatmaamíyaw ku kúušx̣i naamíyaw ‘because the water is elder brother to all the foods and likewise to us’;

ku Spilyáy pɨ́nč̓a anáwiya ‘and Coyote also got hungry’;

ku pɨ́nx̣i iwá waníči páš íiš ‘and the cow parsnip is similarly called sunflower‘;

ana pɨ́n iwá wináanakʷi pɨ́nsɨm áwtta ‘she who is widowed, only she should taboo’;

iwá ánč̓a pɨ́nx̣i tál ‘it is again the same bug’;


See more:

i– ‘He, she, it’ (pronominal prefix);

pɨ́nč̓a ‘she/he/it also’;

pɨlksá ‘she/he/it alone’;

pɨ́nsɨm ‘she/he/it only’;

pɨ́nx̣i ‘she/he/it similarly’;

pɨ́nx̣uš ‘she/he/it first’;

pɨ́nɨm ‘he, she, it’ (erg.);

pmáy ‘they’. Ablaut: paanáy ‘him, her, it’ (acc.);

paamíin ‘of them’ (gen.);

piiní ‘they two’;

piiní ‘With him, her, it’ (Associative case);

[WS pɨ́ni; NW pɨ́nk; NP /ˀipí/, /ˀipn-/; Klamath bi (Barker 1963b:62).]

Pronoun chart