Another large group of prefixes is the Ti-Group, with 7 members.
hati- :: they all (masc)
do something to it
wati- :: they all (fem)
do something to it
huti- :: it does something
to them (masc)
uti- :: it does
something to them (fem)
höwöti- :: she does something
to them (masc)
they do something to them (masc)
köwöti- :: she does somehting
to them (fem)
they do something to them (fem)
shakuti- :: they (masc) do something to
her
The forms that these prefixes take with the five Stem Classes we have
seen is shown in the table below.
C X
L LX
A
---------------------------------------------------------------
hati- | hati-
hati- hatí-
hatí- hënö-
wati- | wati-
wati- watí-
watí- wënö-
huti- | huti-
huti- hutí-
hutí- hunö-
uti- | uti-
uti- utí-
utí- unö-
höwöti- | höwöti-
höwöti- höwötí-
höwötí- höwënö-
köwöti- | köwöti-
köwöti- köwötí-
köwötí- köwënö-
shakuti- | shakuti- shakuti-
shakutí- shakutí- shakunö-
We can note the following patterns:
* All the prefixes end in -ti- in the C-Stem and X-Stem forms.
* All the prefixes end in -tí- in the L-Stem and LX-Stem forms.
* All the prefixes end in either -ënö- or
-unö- in the A-Stem forms.
The -a- that occurs at the beginning of
the Verb Base is replaced
by the -ö- of the prefix.
In Chapter 16 we learned to distinguish between "they" when it refers
to
two males versus when it refers to two females. In this Chapter,
we
learn the plural versions of those prefixes. Remember that the
masculine form gets used for mixed groups.
hënötënö'ös ::
they all (male or mixed) are watching over it
wënötënö'ös ::
they all (female) are watching over it
When "them" occurs as the patient of some action, there are two
different prefixes to use: one for when "them" refers to males, and
one
for when "them" refers to females. Note that with these prefixes,
it
doesn't matter whether there are exactly two, or more than two, people
in the group. It only matters what gender they are. As before,
when the
group is mixed, the masculine form is used.
hunötënö'ös :: it's
watching over them (male or mixed)
unötënö'ös ::
it's watching over them (female)
The next pair of prefixes have two meanings, one with "she" as the
agent, and one with "they" (either masculine or feminine, either dual
or
plural) as the agent. With these prefixes, the "them" patient
can be
any number and any gender.
höwënötënö'ös ::
she's watching over them
they're watching over them
köwënötënö'ös ::
she's watching over them
they're watching over them
There's one more prefix that belongs to the ti-group, shakuti-. It means
"they do something to her", where "they" can be either dual or plural,
but is necessarily masculine and not feminine.
shakunötënö'ös :: they
(masc) are watching over her