Nouns: Inflectional Distinctions (Southern dialect)

Nouns in East Cree appear in various forms. This page is about
Locative Nouns. Back to the main Nouns page.

Locative

Observation:

?????		astutin	‘a hat’
???????		astutinihch	‘in a hat’

In the above example, the word astutin bears a suffix -ihch,
when we want to talk about a place, a location. This is called the LOCATIVE
suffix.

The locative suffix is -ihch.

????		paichiis	‘a pair of pants’
??????		paichiisihch	‘in a pair of pants’
?????????		waaskaahiikan	‘a house’
???????????		waaskaahiikanihch	‘in a house’

For humans, the locative suffix is -inaahch, or for Costal dialects, -iyiyuu, which means “amongst, in, “.

??		iinuu	‘a person (aboriginal)’
?????		iiniinaahch	‘in the aboriginal community’
????????		wemistikuusiiu	‘a white person’
??????????		wemistikuusiinaahch	‘amongst the white people’

Related Topics :

See Paradigm Tables and Stem
Shapes for more examples of how various nouns inflect for number,
gender, obviative and locative.

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