ewü

See also: ewu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • üwü (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ôwɨ. By surface analysis, ü- (first-person prefix) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, with subsequent sound change.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ewɨ]

Pronoun

ewü

  1. (Caura River dialect) the first-person singular pronoun; I, me.

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.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ewü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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, page 282
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, 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, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
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