-zi

From Proto-Athabaskan *-zə̓tʼ. Cognate with Navajo azid, Ahtna -zetʼ

-zi (third-person singular possessed form mizi)

1. liver

• Phone, Wilhelmina; Olson, Maureen; Martinez, Matilda (2007), Axelrod, Melissa, Gómez de García, Lachler, Jordan, editors, Dictionary of Jicarilla Apache / Abáachi Mizaa Iłkeeʼ Siijai, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 438

• IPA^(key): [-θi]

-zi

1. Classifier for types of (raw) meat.

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 197

• (after a consonant) -i

What are now vowel-final verb stems originally had an -l-, which resurfaces whenever a suffix is added. After addition of the suffix -i, this -l- was then spirantized to -z-.

-zi

1. suffix used after a vowel in nominal forms of verbs, in conjunction with a noun class prefix

   ‎-kimbia (“to run”) + ‎-zi → ‎mkimbizi (“refugee”)

   ‎-teua (“to choose”) + ‎-zi → ‎uteuzi (“nomination”)