View source for -s(i)

{{morpheme
|type_morpheme=inflectional
|meaning='of/for'
|function=genitive
|language=Raetic, Etruscan
|analysis_phonemic=/{{p|s}}/
|checklevel=1
|problem=Semantik
}}
== Commentary ==
Corresponding to the Etruscan genitive I ({{bib|Rix 1985}}: 125 f., {{bib|Wallace 2008}}: 46). As in Etruscan, the older form of the ending *-''si'' can still be inferred from the pertinentive I ending {{m||-si}}. Very well documented in Raetic, unlike the genitive II (see {{m||-l(a)}}); this imbalance might be attributed to Raetic names tending strongly to end in a vowel, in regard to the phonotactic rule for praenomina (individual names) according to {{bib|Rix 1985}}: 127, stating that the genitive II was only used instead of I in names with an auslaut in a dental fricative. Note that genitives in -''es'' and -''is'' are formally identical with ablatives]] in -''es'' and -''is'' (the latter being products of umlaut). On the possibility of genitives originally being adjectives of possession, enabling them to serve as bases for cases (pertinentive, ablative), see  {{bib|Rix 1985}}: 127.
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