eg-

pre · Ibaloi (Inibaloi, Nabaloi)

Definition

  • prenot, don't (negation prefix)

Inflections & forms

  • egnak I don't, I can't, I shall not (1SG)
  • egka you (sg) don't (2SG)
  • egto he/she/it doesn't (3SG)
  • egkato he/she/it doesn't (3SG, alternate)
  • egkami we (excl) don't (1PL exclusive)
  • egtayo we (incl) don't (1PL inclusive)
  • egkayo you (pl) don't (2PL)
  • egra they don't (3PL)
  • egmogga please don't (polite imperative)

Example sentences

  • Egka endao. Don't go.
  • Egmogga kutkuti-en. Please don't touch it.
  • Egnak amta etan. I don't know that.

Notes

Negation prefix. Always binds to a clitic pronoun: eg- + clitic forms the person-marked negated verb. Three inflections (egka, egmogga, egnak) are attested verbatim in guidebook example sentences; the remaining six (egto, egkato, egkami, egtayo, egkayo, egra) are derived by pattern-matching eg- against the clitic pronoun paradigm in paradigms.json (derivations validated with the user 2026-04-15 as safe when the base morpheme is already documented). 3SG has two alternate forms: egto (from clitic 'to') and egkato (from clitic 'kato'). Existential negation is covered by the separate entries 'aishi' and 'aishe' (no, none).

Source: A Handy Guidebook to the Ibaloi Language by Sofia Olga Anton (Tebtebba / EED-TFIP, 2010).

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About Ibaloi: Ibaloi (also called Inibaloi or Nabaloi) is the indigenous Cordilleran language of southern Benguet province in the northern Philippines, with approximately 100,000 native speakers. It is part of the Austronesian language family. Definitions on this page are drawn from Sofia Olga Anton's A Handy Guidebook to the Ibaloi Language (Tebtebba / EED-TFIP, 2010).