-i in Proto-Indo-European

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{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from a particle *i (“here”) and related to *í- (“this”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "adverb-forming suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "*-i",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-i",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Adverbial suffix with locative meaning"
      ],
      "id": "en--i-ine-pro-suffix-ic0BiX8b",
      "links": [
        [
          "locative",
          "locative#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Athematic nominal ending of locative singular"
      ],
      "id": "en--i-ine-pro-suffix-Uo5qYwOG",
      "links": [
        [
          "Joseph, Brian D.",
          "w:de:Brian D. Joseph"
        ],
        [
          "Fritz, Matthias",
          "w:de:Matthias Andreas Fritz"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme"
  ],
  "word": "-i"
}

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{
  "categories": [
    "Pages using catfix",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Indo-European adverb-forming suffixes",
    "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
    "Proto-Indo-European suffixes"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from a particle *i (“here”) and related to *í- (“this”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "suffix",
        "cat2": "adverb-forming suffixes"
      },
      "expansion": "*-i",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-i",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Adverbial suffix with locative meaning"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "locative",
          "locative#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Athematic nominal ending of locative singular"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Joseph, Brian D.",
          "w:de:Brian D. Joseph"
        ],
        [
          "Fritz, Matthias",
          "w:de:Matthias Andreas Fritz"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme"
  ],
  "word": "-i"
}

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"-i" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

Suffix