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Tooro
Prefix
ay-
- Form used before a verb beginning with a vowel (that is not -a- or subjunctive -e-) of a-
- ay- + oma (“to get dry”) → ayoma (“he/she gets dry”)
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Prefix
ay-
- (Caura River dialect) Allomorph of ö- (second-person prefix) used for stems that begin with a vowel a or e.
Inflection
Ye'kwana personal markers
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pronoun
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noun possessor/
series II verb argument
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postposition object
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series I verb argument
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| transitive patient
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intransitive patient-like
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intransitive agent-like
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transitive agent
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| first person
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ewü
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y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1
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w-, wi-
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| first person dual inclusive
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küwü
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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k-, kii-, ki-1
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| second person
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amödö
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ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad-
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m-, mi-
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| first person dual exclusive
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nña
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y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1
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chö-
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∅-
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n-, ni-
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| third person
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tüwü
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n-, ni-
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| distant past third person
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—
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kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
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| coreferential/reflexive
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—
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t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-
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—
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| reciprocal
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—
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—
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öö-
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- With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
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series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
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| first person > second person
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mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
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| first person dual exclusive > second person
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| second person > first person
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k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
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| second person > first person dual exclusive
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| third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person
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see person X in the chart above
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