nu-
- first person singular agent marker
- nuiraka : I am drinking
- Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo,Agreement in two Arawak languages, inThe Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008,→ISBN, page 398
CompareNavajoná-,Ahtnana- of the same meaning.
nu-
- An iterative prefix;again
- nu- + tazyu(“he/she left”) → nutasdyu(“he/she left again”).
- (with verbs of motion) Indicates reversal of motion
- nu- + gheyuł(“he/she is walking along”) → nughedyuł(“he/she is walking back”).
- The presence of this prefix triggers classifier shift from∅- tod- andł- tol-.
- Tenenbaum, Joan Marsha (1978),Morphology and Semantics of the Tanaina Verb, Columbia University, pages126, 172
From the prepositionnuo.
nu-
- (with verbs indicating motion)describes an action's movement downward
- (with verbs indicating motion)describes an action's movement into the distance
- (with verbs)describes an improvement and advanced progress in the action
- (with verbs)describes achievement through some action or event
- (with verbs)describes an action or event's outspread over a surface
- (with verbs)describes a type of perfective aspect in solitary events or actions
nu- (nominative proclitic,Lontara spellingᨊᨘ)
- you (familiar second person singular and plural)
nu-
- alternative form ofno-
nu-
- tocry out,shout
- tothreaten
