iaidi people's: form of the general possessive classifier [...]

1. • people's: form of the general possessive classifier (enone*), with an impersonal possessor (idi ‘people, one’)
   • • Gram

   • • Example 630:
       

       Noma li-lanasu idi ne ngatene engaenga: ebele nga namolo iaidi, viabasa idi, kula none aidi, viñe buioe aidi.

       In the olden days, killing someone could be done using a variety of objects, such as their clothes, their hair, the food they left, the nut they chewed…

     • Example 840:
       

       Ka telepakau pe na, lek’ iaidi, idi pe li-romo idi tae. Kape le-wamu idi ñe idi.

       In our culture, cross-cousins [lit. people's cross-cousins] must not look at each other. They must hide from each other.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003352#S51

2. • of the people who

   Syntactic Restriction

   followed by modifier

   • • Example 329:
       

       Banie, pon Teliki iaidi pe li-maluo, iaidi pe li-bu.

       Banie was the god of the Living, but also the god of the Dead.

     • Example 841:
       

       Moe iaidi i-lemoli.

       This is just a house for ordinary people.

     • Example 842:
       

       Pe kulumoe ponu, kulumoe iaidi mwaliko tae.

       That island was not occupied by humans.

       Example URL

       https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S28

Related entries

• See also:
  • aidi¹ form of the possessive classifier used for food, tools, customary possessions etc. (enaka*), with an impersonal possessor (idi ‘people’)
  • enone ‘my’: 1sg form of possessive classifier for General, default possession / classifier for various possessions / classifier for kinship relations when the noun is not inherently a kin term (opp. one, classifier for kin terms) / classifier for some more abstract relations
  • idi¹ ‘people’, ‘one’, ‘they’: 3rd plural impersonal pronoun for human referents / humans, as opp. to spirits or animals