ri-

Borrowed from Italian ri-. Possibly reinforced by the unrelated ri (“young, new”)

ri-

1. denotes repetition. re-, again

From Italian ri-, English re-. Was originally re-, but was changed to ri- due to the confusion with words that naturally start with re.

ri-

1. Prefix used with verbal roots to mean repetition; re-, again

From Latin re-. The prefix ri- is inherited from Latin, while the variant re- is borrowed from Latin.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ri/
• Hyphenation: ri-

ri-

1. re-, again

   Synonym: re-

• The prefix ri- is replaced by re- before words beginning with i, for euphonic reasons (except for some words beginning with im- or in- plus a consonant, in which case the two i's coalesce into one).

• ir-

• (unhyphenated) ru-
• (unhyphenated) rū-

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [rˠi‿ʲ, rˠɯ‿ʲ, rˠɯ‿ˠ, rˠɯ‿ʷ, rˠu‿ʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /rˠi-/
• Bender phonemes: {ri-}

• Marshallese terms prefixed with ri-

ri-

1. person from
2. person who
3. proclitic that forms person nouns

This prefix is not a complete word on its own, but a clitic with the i symbolically representing only the vowel's height. When written with a hyphen, the vowel assumes a short diphthong pronunciation that transitions towards the secondary articulation of the first consonant phoneme of the attached word. This prefix spelling is only used without a hyphen when attached to a word whose first consonant phoneme is palatalized.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

ri-

1. pronominal prefix for a first person singular agent and a third person singular masculine patient

   I ____ him

• Gunther Michelson (1973) A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 11
• Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976) Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, page 383

ri- (Jawi ر-)

1. first-person singular possessive prefix, my

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh