-'jüdü
See also: judu and jūdu
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Carib *-tûpû-rû. The second morpheme is equivalent to -dü (possessive marker), but seems to no longer be analyzed as such in modern Maquiritari.
Suffix
-'jüdü
- Marks a noun as possessed in the past; used with almost all nouns.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 119