tē-
- Indefinite animate object:someone;somebody;everyone;people.
- Indefinite animate possessor:someone's;somebody's.
Classical Nahuatl possessive prefixes
Classical Nahuatl object prefixes
FromMiddle Dutchte-, fromOld Dutch*ti-, fromProto-Germanic*twiz-, fromProto-Indo-European*dwis-. CompareGermanzer-.
te-
- (obsolete, no longerproductive)Created verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.
- tekappen(“to hew into pieces”)
- terijten(“to rip apart”)
- tesplitsen(“to split into pieces”)
te-
- Alternative form ofter-
unknown
te-
- to form thepermissive mood
- tedirbie(“let him work”)
- teaugie(“let it grow”)
FromOld Dutch*ti-, fromProto-Germanic*twiz-, fromProto-Indo-European*dwis-.
te-
- Creates verbs with a sense of ‘in pieces, apart, asunder’, or with intensive force.
te-
- Alternative form ofto-(“towards”)
te-
- Alternative form ofto-(“apart”)
- dualic
- tew-(before a-stem nouns)
FromProto-North Iroquoian*teʔ.
te-
- negation prefix, used withiah
FromProto-North Iroquoian*te, ultimately fromProto-Iroquoian*teː.
te-
- dualic prefix
- with nouns, indicates two of something
- forms superlatives withaonhá’a
- Nora Deering, Helga H. Delisle (1976)Mohawk: A teaching grammar (preliminary version), Quebec: Manitou College, pages57, 146, 205-206
te-
- Alternative form oftō-
FromProto-Germanic*twiz-, fromProto-Indo-European*dwis-.
te-
- Creates verbs with a sense of ‘apart, in piece, asunder’, or with intensive force.
- tebrekan(“to break apart”)
- tebrestan(“to tear up”)
- tedēlian(“to separate”)
- tefallan(“to decay”)
- tefaran(“to decay, to consume”)
- tegangan(“to dissolve”)
- teglīdan(“to glide away”)
- tekīnan(“to dissolve”)
- tekliovan(“to tear apart”)
- telātan(“to disperse”)
- telōsian(“to resolve”)
- teskrīdan(“to dissolve”)
- teslahan(“to destroy”)
- tesprengian(“to smash”)
- testōrian(“to destroy”)
- testōtan(“to pound”)
- teswingan(“to disperse”)
- tewerpan(“to disperse, to destroy”)
te-
- Allomorph oft- used for stems that begin with a consonant other thanw and have a first vowele.
Ye'kwana personal markers
| 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 |
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| first person | ewü | y-,∅-,ü-,u-1 | w-,wi- |
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| first person dual inclusive | küwü | k-,kü-,ku-,ki- | k-,kii-,ki-1 |
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| second person | amödö | ö-,öy-/ödh-,o-,oy-/odh-,a-,ay-/adh- | m-,mi- |
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| first person dual exclusive | nña | y-/dh-,ch-,∅-,i-1 | chö- | ∅- | n-,ni- |
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| third person | tüwü | n-,ni- |
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| distant past third person | — | kün-,kun-,kin-,ken-,küm-,kum-,kim-,kini- |
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| coreferential/reflexive | — | t-,tü-,tu-,ti-,te- | — |
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| reciprocal | — | — | öö- |
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- With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.
|
| series I verb argument:
transitive agent and transitive patient |
|---|
| first person > second person | mön-,man-,mon-,möm-,möni- |
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| first person dual exclusive > second person |
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| second person > first person | k-,kü-,ku-,ki- |
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| second person > first person dual exclusive |
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| third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person | see person X in the chart above |
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