tüwü
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | tüwü |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | töwö |
| New Tribes | töwö |
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) 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