Where does “-i” come from?

-i (Tashelhit) comes from Moroccan Arabic ـي.

-i (Tashelhit): Relational suffix, used to derive nouns and adjectives (with the meaning “related to...”) from nouns

Definitions

  1. Relational suffix, used to derive nouns and adjectives (with the meaning “related to...”) from nouns

Ancestry of “-i”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Moroccan Arabicـي

Words derived from “-i

Every word from Moroccan Arabic ـي