-wi

Inherited from Malay -wi, from Arabic nisba suffix ـِيّ (-iyy).

• IPA^(key): [-wi]

-wi

1. adjective suffix (with the meaning “related to ...”)

• -i
• -iah
• -ni
• -wiah

• “-wi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• Anton Moedardo Moeliono; Hans Lapoliwa; Hasan Alwi; Sry Satrya Tjatur Wisnu Sasangka; Sugiyono (1988), Tata Bahasa Baku Bahasa Indonesia [Standard Indonesian Grammar] (in Indonesian), 4th edition, published 2017, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic.

• IPA^(key): [-wi]
• Hyphenation: -wi

-wi (Jawi spelling ـوي)

1. (after vowels or ⟨h⟩) alternative form of -i

   ‎manusia (“a human”) + ‎-wi → ‎manusiawi (“relating to humans”)

   ‎sejarah (“history”) + ‎-wi → ‎sejarawi (“historical”)

-wi

1. to be a certain kind of (animate) thing or being
2. to become a certain kind of (animate) thing or being

Final added to a noun stem to form a verb of being

• akiiwi
• anishinaabewi
• ikwezensiwi
• ininiiwi — he is a man

• aawi
• -izi

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/word-part/wi-final

-wi

1. to be (animate)

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001), Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 319