küwü

See also: kuwu

Ye'kwana[edit]

Possibly from Proto-Cariban *kɨwɨ. Compare Waiwai kïwï and (with suffixed emphatic particle) Hixkaryana kàwro; but note forms such as Trió kïmë, Wayana kunmë, that suggest only the initial *kɨ- element may be reconstructible to Proto-Cariban. By surface analysis, k(ü)- (first-person inclusive prefix) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü.

küwü

Verbs agreeing with this pronoun take singular agreement.

Ye'kwana personal pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
first person exclusive	ewü,^Y üwü^D	nña	nña
first person inclusive	—	küwü	künwanno
second person	amödö,^Y ömödö^D	—	önwanno
third person	tüwü	—	tünwanno
Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect.

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “küwü”, 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) “kɨwɨ”, 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