-chi

Inherited from Proto-Muskogean *-či.

-chi

2. Causative verb suffix.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-chi

1. (somewhat productive) A frequentative verb suffix.
2. Redundant verb suffix to mark plurality on other words whose pluralities are already indicated.

Doublet of -chi- (second-person interfix).

-chi

1. Second-person singular control verb suffix, used for verbs that end with either two vowels, a vowel followed by a consonant, or vowel-consonant-vowel.

• Cora Sylestine; Heather K.Hardy; Timothy Montler (1993), “-chi”, in Alabama Dictionary (digital republishing of Dictionary of the Alabama Language), University of North Texas, published 2004

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃi/

From Proto-Muskogean *-či. Compare Choctaw -chi, Alabama -chi, Koasati -chi, Hitchiti -či, Mikasuki -či, Creek -ce.

• -chichi

-chi

2. Causative verb suffix; increases the verb valence by one

   Chickasaw terms suffixed with -chi (causative verb suffix)

   aachi

   aakapassachiꞌ

   anhinchi

   atalkachit má̱a

   awaalhaachi

   ayachi

   ayokpachi

   ayoppachi

   chaahachi

   chakissachi

   haksichi

   holisso pisachi

   holissochi

   homichi

   hoshottikachi

   hottopachi

   ho̱sachi

   illichi

   ittayokommochi

   ittibaakaachi

   kowi-pa̱achiꞌ

   lhilichi

   nihichi

   oklhiwachi

   oshshowanchi

   pisachi

   tobachi

-chi

1. alternative form of -hchi (dubitative verb suffix)

-chi

1. (causative suffix) Increases a verbs valency by one

   nowali (“I walk”) → nowachili (“I make him walk”)

2. (dubitative suffix) expresses doubt or uncertainty

   nowachili (“I make him walk”) → nowachilichi (“I'm not sufe if I make him walk”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-chi

1. (inflectional suffix) forms the instrumental case

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-chi

1. (inflectional suffix) forms the locative case

This suffix is only used to indicate location in space, not in time.´

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-chi

1. used to form female Garo names.

• -ni (“forms genitive”)
• -na (“forms dative”)
• -ming (“forms comitative”)
• -no (“forms locative”)

-chi

1. Rōmaji transcription of ち

• -tsi (Ancash)

-chi

1. 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”)

• -shi (Cajamarca); -tri (Jauja, Junín)

-chi

1. Used to indicate a putative or conjectural statement.

• -cha
• -chá

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *-čyi (“animal feces”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

-chi

1. Animal feces; dung, manure.

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “chi”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-či.

-chi

1. Profession suffix.

-chi

1. suffix applied to naturally possessed nouns to depossess them; that is, to indicate that they are not, in fact, possessed

• Languages of the Amazon (2012, →ISBN)