tun̄wuyegë

Hiw

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʉŋʷujəɣe/

Gender classifier

tun̄wuyegë (feminine plural)

(followed by noun) the (feminine plural article for human nouns)
tun̄wuyegë n̄weyen̄waye ― (the) girls
(absolute use) (the) women, (the) girls
Tun̄wuyegë ve sewesawe. ― The women are dancing.

Usage notes

General determiner; does not encode definiteness.
Contrasts with feminine singular r̄ëtëgë, with feminine dual tör̄ör̄ë.
Contrasts with masculine plural ten̄war̄e, with common-gender plural tekn̄wa.
Contrasts with 3rd dual personal pronoun sör̄ö.

References

p.343 of: François, Alexandre. 2019. Verbal number in Lo-Toga and Hiw: The emergence of a lexical paradigm. Transactions of the Philological Society 117‒3 (Dec 2019). 338-371.

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