イ
Ainu「汝」
i=low
I= is retained cautiously because Tamura and Nakagawa document a respectful second-person object use, alongside inclusive and narrative first-person uses. It is not a general independent singular “you.” E= is the ordinary second-person prefix and remains an alternative if イ represents its vowel historically. The isolated source gloss supplies no syntax or social context to choose securely. Corpus examples of i=kor retained here mean “me,” so they do not verify the respectful second-person analysis. Prefix-query counts are boundary-limited retrieval, not total grammatical occurrences.
References
Occurrences (1)
- National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics · 乾巻 · Page 26, line 6 · イ
…タレ補佐の人イヨシカマレ影法師アイノクリ吾われク クアニ カニ汝イ イアニ ヤニ父ハンベ ミチ アチヤ母ハボ兄ユービ弟アキ伯父ケウシユプ伯母コンナリペ姉シヤー妹ツ…