From Old Frisian wī, from Proto-Germanic *wīz, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.
wü (Sylt)
personal | possessive | ||||||||
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subject case | object case | singular referent |
plural referent | ||||||
full | reduced | full | reduced | attributive | independent | ||||
singular | 1st | ik | 'k | mi | min | minen | |||
2nd | dü | – | di | din | dinen | ||||
3rd m. | hi | 'r | höm | 'n | sin | sinen | |||
3rd f. | jü | 's | höör | 's | höör | höören | |||
3rd n. | hat | et, 't | höm | et, 't | sin | sinen | |||
dual | 1st | wat | unk | unken | |||||
2nd | at | junk | junken | ||||||
3rd | jat | jam | 's | jaar | jaaren | ||||
plural | 1st | wü | üüs | üüsen | |||||
2nd | i | juu | juuen | ||||||
3rd | ja | 's | jam | 's | jaar | jaaren | |||
notes | The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur. The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects. Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents. |