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