Description
of
Pronomial-Prefixes

A Pronomial-Prefix is the verb-prefix which denotes the pronoun (i.e. who the verb is talking about).
It is used instead of a stand-alone pronoun such as "I" or "They" in English.

Pronomial-Prefixes

Number	Pronoun	Explanation	Grammatical Name	Short Notation
Singular	I	I, singular (regardless of gender)	First person, Singular	1s (1st, Singular)
	"Thou"	You, singular (regardless of gender)	Second person, Singular	2s (2nd, Singular)
	He	He, singular (masculine)	Third person Male, Singular	3ms (3rd, Masculine, Singular)
	She	She, singular (femail)	Third person Female, Singular	3fs (3rd, Feminine, Singular)
	It	It (animal or inanimate object), singular	Third person Neutral, Singular	3ns (3rd, Neutral, Singular)
Dual	We Two, INCL	We-Two, INCLUSIVE; You and I (regardless of gender)	First person, Inclusive, Dual	id (Inclusive first person, Dual)
	We Two, EXCL. (I + someone else)	We-Two, EXCLUSIVE; Someone else and I (regardless of gender)	First person, Exclusive, Dual	ed (Exclusive first person, Dual)
	You Two	You-Two You and Someone else (regardless of gender)	Second person, Dual	2d (2nd, Dual)
	They Two (masculine)	They-Two, Male those two male-people (men, boys, chaps, male-senior-citizens, whatever.)	Third person, Exclusive, Dual	3md (3rd, Masculine, Dual)
	They Two (fem. or neut.)	They-Two, Female those two female-people (women, ladies, girls, female-senior-citizens, whatever.)	Third person, Feminine, Dual	3fd (3rd, Feminine, Dual)
Plural	We All, INCL.	We-all, including you	Inclusive first person, Plural	ip (Inclusive first person, Plural)
	We All, EXCL. (without You [one or many])	We-all, not including you	Exclusive first person, Plural	ep (Exclusive first person, Plural)
	You All	You-all, plural (regardless of gender)	Second person, Plural	2p (Second person, Plural)
	They (masc.)	Those (more than two) Male people	Third person, Masculine, Plural	3mp (3rd person, Masculine, Plural)
	1. They (fem.) 2. Those (inanimate)	Those (more than 2) Female people, or Those (more than 2) Inanimate objects (the Neutral gets a Feminine conjugation)	Third person, Feminine and Neutral, Plural	3nmp (Third person, Non-Masculine, Plural)

Notes

Indicating Active or Passive (Agent or Patient)

The pronomial-prefix gets different forms when it denotes an active role (the person is doing something, e.g. "We hunt") and when it denotes a passive role (something is done to the person, e.g. "We are hunted"). For example, the Exclusive-first-person, Plural ("We-all, not including you") has the form "akwa-" when denoting an Active role, and the form "ökwa-" when denoting a Passive role. In the notation, we add the letter "A" to indicate the Active form of the pronomial-prefix, and the letter "P" to indicate its passive form. So, for example, the prefix "akwa-" is denoted as "EpA" (Exclusive, Plural, Active) and "ökwa-" is denoted as "EpP" (Exclusive, Plural, Passive)

Relevance of "Stem-Class" (first letter of the word)

The first letter of the word affects the form of the pronomial prefix (e.g. lengthen the vowel, nasalize it, etc.). So it is sometimes necessary to indicate which form of the prefix we are referring to.
To indicate this, the "stem-class" is added to the notation, after a slash. For example when we want to say that we are talking about the Exclusive-First-Person Plural ("We-all, not including you"), when it denotes an Active role, in the form it has when it comes before a nasal-e ("ë"), we add "/Ë" after the notation for the pronoun ("EpA") to get "EpA/Ë".

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