tüwü

== Ye'kwana == === Etymology === Possibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a singular/dual personal pronoun base *wü, by analogy with üwü / ewü and küwü. The Ye'kwana third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [tɨwɨ] === Pronoun === tüwü the third-person singular pronoun; he, she, it, him, her ==== Inflection ==== === Determiner === tüwü functions as a definite article for a following proper noun === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tüwü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, pages 120, 284–285 Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 216–217, 282, 400: “[tïwï] 'he/she/it' […] tüwü 'he/she/it' […] 3 singular tüwü […] tüwü - s/he, him/her” Hall, Katherine (2007), “tɨwɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021