w-
Ojibwe[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
- Alternative form of o-
Usage notes[edit]
w- appears before stems that begin with ii.
See also[edit]
Old Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
- indicates motion inside or inward
- indicates motion upward
Derived terms[edit]
Polish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
- indicates motion inside or inward
- indicates motion upward
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- w- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swahili[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w- (plural ny-)
- u class(XI) noun prefix used before vowels
- wakati mwingine ― another time
Tooro[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ∅- (allomorph before a consonant)
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
- Obligatorily marks derivations of intransitive verbs adverbialized with -e or nominalized with any marker.
Usage notes[edit]
This prefix is unrealized (disappears) when the stem it is attached to begins with a consonant. When it is used in the third person, the third-person marker y- itself is unrealized, but it palatalizes this suffix w- to y- and lengthens the vowel after it if possible, so that w- appears to disappear (as it becomes indistinguishable from the pre-vocalic form of the third-person marker y- that palatalized it).
This prefix comes between the person marker and the verb stem.
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- wi- (allomorph before a consonant)
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
w-
- Marks a transitive verb as having a first-person agent/subject when the patient/object is of third person.
- Marks an intransitive verb with agent-like argument or (with certain vowel-initial verbs) patient-like argument as having a first-person argument/subject with verb forms that take series I markers.
Usage notes[edit]
The form w- is used with stems that start with a vowel; wi- is used with those that start with a consonant, in which case the initial consonant is also palatalized. In practice, since all intransitive verbs to which this prefix can attach start with a vowel, wi- only appears on certain transitive verbs.
Inflection[edit]
pronoun | noun possessor/ series II verb argument |
postposition object | series I verb argument | |||||||
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transitive patient | intransitive patient-like | intransitive agent-like | transitive agent | |||||||
first person | ewü | y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1 | w-, wi- | |||||||
first person dual inclusive | küwü | k-, kü-, ku-, ki- | k-, kii-, ki-1 | |||||||
second person | amödö | ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad- | m-, mi- | |||||||
first person dual exclusive | nña | y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1 | 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- | |||||||
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series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient | |
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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 |
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “w-”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 152, 179–180, 200–202
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