kin-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kin"

Middle English

Prefix

kin-

  1. Alternative form of kine-

Pipil

Pronunciation
  • (standard) IPA(key): /ɣiŋ/

Prefix

kin-

  1. (personal) them, third-person plural object marker.
    Nikintajtanilij su kinekituyat yawit
    I asked them if they wanted to go

Usage notes
  • Often substituted by the third-person singular object marker k(i)- in daily speech. Before a vowel, "kin-" changes to "kinh-". The digraph <nh> is pronounced as [ŋ]. Example:
Tikinhishmati
You know them

See also
Pipil verb object markers
singular plural
1st person nech- tech-
2nd person metz- metzin-
3rd person ki- kin-

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kin-]

Prefix

kin-

  1. Allomorph of kün- (distant past third-person prefix) used for stems that begin with i or y.

Inflection
Ye'kwana personal markers
pronoun noun possessor/
series II verb argument		 postposition object series I verb argument
transitive patient intransitive patient-like intransitive agent-like transitive agent
first person ewü y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1 w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive küwü k-, kü-, ku-, ki- k-, kii-, ki-1
second person amödö ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad- m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive nña y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1 chö- ∅- n-, ni-
third person tüwü n-, ni-
distant past third person — kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive — t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te- —
reciprocal — — öö-
  1. With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person see person X in the chart above
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