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-kam

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Ilocano

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Pronoun

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-kam

  1. alternative form of -kami
    Sumangpetkamto madamdama.We will arrive later.

See also

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Ilocano personal pronouns
Person Number Absolutive Ergative Oblique Possessive
Disjunctive Enclitic Enclitic3 bági form kukua form
First singular siak -ak -ko, -k kaniak bagik kukuak, kuak
dual data, sita1 -ta kaniata, kadata bagita kukuata
plural inclusive datayo, sitayo1 -tayo, -tay kaniatayo, kadatayo bagitayo kukuatayo
plural exclusive dakami, sikami1 -kami, -kam -mi kaniami, kadakami bagimi kukuami
Second singular sika -ka -mo, -m kaniam, kenka bagim kukuam
plural dakayo, sikayo1 -kayo, -kay -yo kaniayo, kadakayo bagiyo kukuayo
Third singular isu, isuna Ø2 -na kaniana, kenkuana bagina kukuana
plural isuda -da kaniada, kadakuada bagida kukuada

1Regional variants.
2Null morpheme: there is no absolutive enclitic for the third person singular pronoun. The disjunctives isu or isuna may also be used.
3Ergative enclitics are also used as possessive markers.

Fused enclitics
Actor Patient
siak data datayo dakami sika dakayo isu5 isuda
siak bagik4 -ka -kayo -ko, -k -ko ida, -k ida
data bagita4 -ta -ta ida
datayo bagitayo4 -tayo -tayo ida
dakami bagimi4 -daka -dakayo -mi -mi ida
sika -nak -nakami bagim4 -mo, -m -mo ida, -m ida
dakayo -dak -data -dakami bagiyo4 -yo -yo ida
isu -nak -nata -natayo -nakami -naka -nakayo bagina4, -na -na ida
isuda -dak -data -datayo -dakami -daka -dakayo -da bagida4, -da ida

4Reflexive pronouns use the bagí form.
5 isu or isuna may also be added after the enclitics in this column.

Northern Ohlone

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Etymology

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Compare Central Sierra Miwok -mōk.

Pronoun

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-kam

  1. you all (second-person, plural, enclitic subject pronoun)
    • 1921, María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington, Chochenyo Field Notes[1]:
      kišháraknekam
      You all gave it to me

See also

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Northern Ohlone personal pronouns
person subject object possessive
disjunctive1 proclitic
enclitic disjunctive1 proclitic enclitic
singular first kaana ek- -ek, -k kiš, kaaniš kiš- -kiš ek-, kaanak
second meene em-, im- -em, -im, -m miš emiš-, imiš-, miš- -miš em-, meenem
third waaka Ø-2 2 wiš Ø-2, eš- 2, -eš i-, waakai-
plural first makkin mak- -mak makkiš, makkinše mak-, makkinmak
second makkam kam- -kam makkamše kam-, makkam
third waakamak ya- -ya yaṭiš ya-, waakamak

1 Disjunctive is mostly used in copular sentences or for emphasis, either alone (eg. kaana) or with a clitic (eg. kaana-k ...-ek).
2 Null morpheme. An unmarked verb implies a third person singular pronoun. The disjunctives waaka and wiš may also be used.
Note: Proclitic and enclitic forms can combine and undergo syncope, eg. ellešk (let me do to him/her/it) = elle +‎ -eš +‎ -ek

References

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  • María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington (1930s), Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Languages)‎[2], Unpublished