-chi
See also: Appendix:Variations of "chi"
Chickasaw
Suffix
-chi
- Causative verb suffix.
Choctaw
Suffix
-chi
- (causative suffix) Increases a verbs valency by one
- nowali (“I walk”) → nowachili (“I make him walk”)
- (dubitative suffix) expresses doubt or uncertainty
- nowachili (“I make him walk”) → nowachilichi (“I'm not sufe if I make him walk”)
Garo
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Suffix
-chi
- (inflectional suffix) forms the instrumental case
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Suffix
-chi
- (inflectional suffix) forms the locative case
Usage notes
This suffix is only used to indicate location in space, not in time.´
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Suffix
-chi
- used to form female Garo names.
See also
- -ni (“forms genitive”)
- -na (“forms dative”)
- -ming (“forms comitative”)
- -no (“forms locative”)
Japanese
Romanization
-chi
- Rōmaji transcription of ち
Quechua
Alternative forms
- -tsi (Ancash)
Suffix
-chi
- Derivational suffix, causative. To make someone do something; to let or allow something.
- llamkay (“to work”) → llamkachiy (“to make one work”)
- yachay (“to learn”) → yachachiy (“to teach”)
Alternative forms
- -shi (Cajamarca); -tri (Jauja, Junín)
Suffix
-chi
- Used to indicate a putative or conjectural statement.
See also
- -cha
- -chá
Uzbek
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-či.
Suffix
| Other scripts | |
|---|---|
| Cyrillic | -чи (-chi) |
| Latin | |
| Perso-Arabic | |
-chi
- Profession suffix.
Derived terms
Uzbek terms suffixed with -chi
Yine
Suffix
-chi
- suffix applied to naturally possessed nouns to depossess them; that is, to indicate that they are not, in fact, possessed
References
- Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN)