ewü

See also: ewu

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *awï. Compare Trió wïï, Wayana ïu, Waiwai owï. Synchronically as if ü- (first-person prefix) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, with subsequent sound change.

Pronoun

ewü

  1. (Ye'kwana dialect) the first-person singular pronoun; I, me.

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), “ɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ewü”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120
  • 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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