tun̄wuyegë
Hiw edit
Pronunciation edit
Gender classifier edit
tun̄wuyegë (feminine plural)
- (followed by noun) the (feminine plural article for human nouns)
- tun̄wuyegë n̄weyen̄waye ― (the) girls
- (absolute use) (the) women, (the) girls
- Tun̄wuyegë ve sewesawe. ― The women are dancing.
Usage notes edit
- General determiner; does not encode definiteness.
- Contrasts with feminine singular r̄ëtëgë, with feminine dual tör̄ör̄ë.
- Contrasts with masculine plural ten̄war̄e, with common-gender plural tekn̄wa.
- Contrasts with 3rd dual personal pronoun sör̄ö.
References edit
- p.343 of: François, Alexandre. 2019. Verbal number in Lo-Toga and Hiw: The emergence of a lexical paradigm. Transactions of the Philological Society 117‒3 (Dec 2019). 338-371.