tüwü

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See also: tuwu, tūwù, túwù, and tǔwù

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV tüwü
Brazilian standard töwö
New Tribes töwö

Etymology

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

Pronoun

tüwü

  1. the third-person singular pronoun; he, she, it, him, her

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal pronouns
singular dual plural
first person exclusive ewü,Y üwüD nña nña
first person inclusive — küwü künwanno
second person amödö,Y ömödöD — önwanno
third person tüwü — tünwanno
Y. Caura River dialect.
D. Cunucunuma River dialect.

Determiner

tüwü

  1. functions as a definite article for a following proper noun

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tüwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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