küwü
See also: kuwu
Ye'kwana
editEtymology
editPossibly from Proto-Cariban *kɨwɨ. Compare Waiwai kïwï and (with suffixed emphatic particle) Hixkaryana kàwro; but note forms such as Trió kïmë, Wayana kunmë, that suggest only the initial *kɨ- element may be reconstructible to Proto-Cariban. By surface analysis, k(ü)- (first-person inclusive prefix) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
editküwü
Usage notes
editVerbs agreeing with this pronoun take singular agreement.
Inflection
editYe'kwana personal pronouns
References
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “küwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 120
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 217, 282, 393: “küwü 'we two' […] 1 dual küwü (incl) […] küwü 'you and I' […] küwü - we two (first and second person)”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages[3], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275