oh-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oh"

Ahtna

Etymology

Compare Navajo oh-

Prefix

oh-

1. marks a second person plural subject; you

   nicʼaʼohʼaan ― You lifted it up

See also

Subject prefixes

	singular	plural
1st person	es-	tsʼ-
2nd person	i-	oh-
3rd person	∅-	ku-, k-
3rd person obviate	y-
4th person	cʼ-
Areal	ko-

References

• Kari, James (1990), Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 54

Choctaw

Prefix

oh- (before consonants ho-, imperative second-person plural)

1. the subject of an imperative verb

   let you (all), do you (all), do ye

2. (obsolete) used in place of ordinary pronominal suffixes in the communication between in-laws, especially a man and his mother-in-law
   Im ia lih. → Oh ia lih. (traditional spelling)

   I went with him.

Inflection

Choctaw Person Markers

			class I			class II		class III		class N		imperative
			+s	+C	+V	+C/i	+a/o	+C	+V	+C	+V	+C	+V
first-person	singular	initial	-li			sa-	si-	a̱-	am-	ak-		n/a
		medial						-sa-	-sam-
	paucal		ī-		il-	pi-		pi̱-	pim-	kī-	kil-
	plural					hapi-		hapi̱-	hapim-
second-person	singular		is-	ish-		chi-		chi̱-	chim-	chik-		∅
	plural		has-	hash-		hachi-		hachi̱-	hachim-	hachik-		ho-	oh-
third-person			∅			∅		i̱-	im-	ik-

East Central German

Etymology

From oh, from Middle High German abe, ab, from Old High German ab, from Proto-West Germanic *ab(a), from Proto-Germanic *ab. Compare German ab-.

Prefix

oh-

1. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates removal or quitting,) off, away.

   ‎oh- + ‎flahe (“to rinse, wash”) → ‎ohflahe (“to rinse off, wash off”)

   ‎oh- + ‎taae (“to thaw, melt”) → ‎ohtaae (“to defrost”)

2. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Separable verb prefix that indicates a downward movement,) down.

   Synonyms: runnr-, nunnr-

   ‎oh- + ‎steing (“to rise, climb, increase”) → ‎ohsteing (“to descend, dismount, get off”)

3. (Erzgebirgisch, non-gloss definition, Noun prefix that indicates being different from the source or) deviation.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “on”): ah-
• (antonym(s) of “up”): off-

Derived terms

East Central German terms prefixed with oh-

ohflahe

Ooschalting

References

• Wörterbuch der obersächsischen und erzgebirgischen Mundarten, P. 4
• Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 93

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /òh-/

Prefix

oh-

1. Marks a second person duoplural subject

   ‎oh- + ‎yicha (“he/she is crying”) → ‎wohcha (“you (plural) are crying”)

Usage notes

• This is the basic form of the marker; however, it does not typically appear in this form as oh- phonotactically permissible Navajo syllable. In ∅-imperfective verbs, this prefix must be preceded by the peg element w-; in ni-perfective verbs, it becomes noh-.
• The l-classifier is devoiced to ł when preceded by this prefix and the /h/ is lost, resulting in forms such as hołneʼ (“you two are talking about it”) rather than *holneʼ.

See also

Navajo ∅-imperfective subject markers

			singular	duoplural	plural
1st person			(yi)sh-	(y)iid-	deii-
2nd person			ni-	(w)oh-	daah-
3rd person			yi-		daa-
4th person			ji-		daji-

ni-imperfective	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	nish-	nii-	danii-
2nd person	ní-	noh-	danoh-
3rd person	yí-		deí-
4th person	jí-		dají-
Other forms
Unspecified person	Spatial person	Simple passive	Agentive passive
í-	hó-	yí-	biʼdee-

Wailaki

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan. Cognate with Navajo oh-, Ahtna oh-, Lower Tanana wx-.

Prefix

oh-

1. Marks a second person plural verbal subject

Related terms

Subject prefixes

	singular	plural
1st person	sh-, i-	di-
2nd person	n-	oh-
3rd person	∅-
3rd person obviate	yi-
Indefinite	chʼi-, ʼ-
Areal	ki-

References

• Begay, Kayla Rae (2017), Wailaki Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, page 166