shi-

shi-

1. Rōmaji transcription of し

shi-

1. (coincident prefix)
   1. while, as
   2. similar

• Nora Deering; Helga H. Delisle (1976), Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, page 433

• shí-, si-

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ̀-/

shi-

1. my, me (often indicates primary or inalienable possession, in opposition to she-. See for example abeʼ, shibeʼ)

   ‎-gaan (“arm”) + ‎shi- → ‎shigaan (“my arm”)

   ‎-jáád (“leg”) + ‎shi- → ‎shijáád (“my leg”)

• á-
• ał-
• ahił-
• she-

• IPA^(key): /ʃi/

shi-

1. (personal) you, second-person subject subjunctive marker.

   Shikilwi ma wiki

   Tell her/him to come here

• taja (personal pronoun)
• metz- (object marker)
• anmejemet (personal pronoun)
• metzin- (object marker)
• -kan (plural verb suffix)

Related to the Wailaki pronoun shii. Compare Ahtna s-, Navajo shi-, Hupa whi-, Kato sh-, Mattole shi-.

shi-

1. Marks a first person singular possessor of a noun or object of a postposition.

   ‎shi- + ‎-siʼ (“head”) → ‎ssiʼ (“my head”)

   ‎shi- + ‎-ł (“with”) → ‎shił (“with me”)

   ‎shi- + ‎-dáʼ (“mouth”) → ‎shdáʼ (“my mouth”)

• The form sh- (s- before alveolar consonants) is in free variation with the form shi-.

• Begay, Kayla Rae (2017), Wailaki Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, page 220