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Amharic
-e/-ye - my (genitive pronominal suffix, 1 sg.)
(AED 1688, Bulakh–Kogan 2013b:101)
-ye is the form used with nouns ending in a vowel.
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PS
*-ī/-ya
- my (genitive pronominal suffix, 1 sg.)
(Kogan 2009:69)
In most languages *-ya is an allomorph used after long vowels. An exclusion is Ethio-Semitic, where reflexes of *-ya are used in all cases.