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po ‘(i) masculine gender marker,
(ii) used as a classifier with containers’
p ‘added to the verb to indicate that the action is done in a short cut way/method’
pya  ‘(i) added to the verb to indicate that the action is performed to return the debt one owns in action,
(ii) added to the verb to indicate that the action is performed to degrade someone’
pye ‘(i) used as a classifier to indicate that the objects referred are very small,
  (ii) added to the verb to indicate that the doer of the action was successful in achieving the  objective of the action’
pyo ‘added to the verb to indicate that the action is performed, hiding others’
py ‘added to indicate the excellency of the doer of the action (in performing the action)’
py ‘added to the verb to indicate that the doer has performed the action ahead of others’
ba ‘used as a classifier for flat objects’
bi  ‘(i) added with time nouns to mean ‘previous’,
(ii) give (as a regular verb),
  (iii) added to the verb to indicate that the action is done for the sake of someone else’
b ‘(i) added to the verbto indicate the certainty of the event’
(ii) added to indicate that the action is performed  successfully’
bu ‘used as a classifier for big and long objects’
be ‘used as a classifier for items made of clothes’
bo ‘(i) addedto nouns to indicate masculine gender,
(ii) added to the verb to indicate that the subject is moving in the plain area,
(iii) added to nouns as to specify the agentive and experience nouns’
   
b  ‘added to the verb to indicate that the doer has joined / shared in the action’
 

 

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