-zi

• IPA^(key): [-θi]

-zi

1. Classifier for types of (raw) meat.

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 197

• (after a consonant) -i

What are now vowel-final verb stems originally had an -l-, which resurfaces whenever a suffix is added. After addition of the suffix -i, this -l- was then spirantized to -z-.

-zi

1. suffix used after a vowel in nominal forms of verbs, in conjunction with a noun class prefix

   ‎-kimbia (“to run”) + ‎-zi → ‎mkimbizi (“refugee”)

   ‎-teua (“to choose”) + ‎-zi → ‎uteuzi (“nomination”)