sashno

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Choctaw

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Pronoun

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sashno (first-person singular)

  1. (Mississippi, emphatic) I, me
  2. (Mississippi) mine

Usage notes

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  • This pronoun was formed analogously from the class II pronominal prefixes (see sa-) + -shno, extrapolated form the other emphatic pronouns. It's mostly used by younger speakers of Mississippi Choctaw. It's considered ungrammatical to other speakers.
  • Choctaw usually doesn't use personal pronouns, instead relying on pronominal affixes.

Inflection

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emphatic possessive‡
singular paucal plural singular paucal plural
first-person ano
sashno
pishno hapishno ammi pimmi hapimmi
second-person chishno hachishno chimmi hachimmi
third-person yamma ilap
Recent analogous formation in Mississippi Choctaw. Considered substandard.
First- and second-person are archaic in Mississippi Choctaw, where the emphatic pronouns are used for possession instead.