OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

i

•  they; personal pronoun, masculine and feminine plural, usually used together with ana.

simarah iwajethey said

ana iinothey come

Note: It is sometimes used if there is no plural form, so that one would be inclined to think that the prefix is used for the sake of euphony. Placed before nouns i is the possessive pronoun of the third person, masculine singular. It gives a passive meaning to causative verbs