tüwü
See also: tuwu, tūwù, túwù, and tǔwù
Maquiritari
Etymology
Possibly from tü- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, by analogy with üwü / ewü and küwü. The Maquiritari third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.
Pronoun
tüwü
- the third-person singular pronoun; he, she, it, him, her.
Inflection
Maquiritari personal pronouns
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| first person exclusive | üwü,D ewüY | nña | — |
| first person inclusive | — | küwü | künwanno |
| second person | ömödö,D amödöY | — | önwanno |
| third person | tüwü | — | tünwanno |
| Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. | |||
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “tɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tüwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120