ewü

See also: ewu and ewú

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ewü
Brazilian standard	ewö
New Tribes	ewö

Alternative forms

• üwü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwɨ. By surface analysis, ü- (first-person prefix) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, with subsequent sound change.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ewɨ]

Pronoun

ewü

1. (Caura River dialect) the first-person singular pronoun; I, me

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
first person exclusive	ewüY, üwüD	nña	nña
first person inclusive	—	küwü	künwanno
second person	amödöY, ömödöD	—	önwanno
third person	tüwü	—	tünwanno

^Y Caura River dialect
^D Cunucunuma River dialect

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 120
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 282
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages‎^[3], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275