tüwü
Ye'kwana
editALIV | tüwü |
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Brazilian standard | töwö |
New Tribes | töwö |
Etymology
editPossibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, by analogy with üwü / ewü and küwü. The Ye'kwana third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
edittüwü
Inflection
editsingular | dual | plural | |
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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
Determiner
edittüwü
- functions as a definite article for a following proper noun
References
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tüwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 120, 284–285
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 216–217, 282, 400: “[tïwï] 'he/she/it' […] tüwü 'he/she/it' […] 3 singular tüwü […] tüwü - s/he, him/her”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021