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Tigrinya
-äy - my (genitive pronominal suffix, 1 sg.)
(Bulakh–Kogan 2013b:101)
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*-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.