tu-

See also: -tu-, tw-, and Appendix:Variations of "tu"

Kamba

Alternative forms

Prefix

tu-

  1. we (used for conjugating verbs to the subjective or nominative case of the personal pronoun)

Lushootseed

Alternative forms
  • tə-

Prefix

tu-

  1. inflectional prefix applied to any lexical category functioning as predicate or complement to indicate past tense

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tu-]

Prefix

tu-

  1. Allomorph of t- used for stems that begin with a consonant other than w and have a first vowel u.

Inflection
Maquiritari personal markers (Ye’kwana dialect)
pronoun noun possessor/
series II verb argument		 postposition object series I verb argument
transitive patient intransitive patient-like intransitive agent-like transitive agent
first person ewü y-, ∅-, ü-, u- w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive küwü k-, kü-, ku-, ki- k-, kii-, ki-
second person amödö ö-, öy-, o-, oy-, a-, ay- m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive nña y-, ch-, ∅-, i- chö- ∅- n-, ni-
third person tüwü n-, ni-
distant past third person — kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive — t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te- —
reciprocal — — öö-
series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person see person X in the chart above

Middle English

Prefix

tu-

  1. Alternative form of to- (“towards”)

Prefix

tu-

  1. Alternative form of to- (“apart”)

Uneapa

Etymology

From earlier *natu- via truncation, from Proto-Oceanic *natu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *natu.

Pronunciation

Noun

tu-

  1. child

Further reading
  • Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 365
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