tüwü
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
Possibly 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 edit
Pronoun edit
tüwü
Inflection edit
Ye'kwana personal pronouns
Determiner edit
tüwü
- 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) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 282
- 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