li-

li-

1. third person singular masculine agent marker

• Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, →ISBN, page 398

From Proto-Nguni *ni-.

li-

1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

From Proto-Nguni *ní-.

li-

1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

li-

1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

From Proto-Nguni *ni-.

li-

1. you, you all; second-person plural subject concord.

From Proto-Nguni *ní-.

li-

1. you, you all; second-person plural object concord.

From Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

li-

1. Class 5 noun prefix.

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

li-

1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

From Proto-Nguni *íli-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-, plus augment. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

li-

1. Class 5 noun prefix.

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

li-

1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

li-

1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

From Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-. Originally the pronominal and verbal concord, it displaced the older Bantu noun prefix *ì-. The tone was lowered by analogy with other noun prefixes.

li-

1. Class 5 simple noun prefix.

From Proto-Nguni *lí-, from Proto-Bantu *dɪ́-.

li-

1. he, she, it; class 5 subject concord.
2. him, her, it; class 5 object concord.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “li-”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “li-”