üwü

See also: uwu and UwU

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• ewü (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨwɨ]

Pronoun

üwü

1. (Cunucunuma 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^[1], Lyon, page 120
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in 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^[2], 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^[3], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275