nawh-nawh-ᘇᐁᑋ-PREFIXsecond person duo-plural object

Attaches to stems beginning with a consonant other than glottal stop. If the following consonant is non-coronal, the rounding moves onto the following consonant, where it is realized if that consonant is velar, e.g. nahkwunuta ‟he is looking for you”, and disappears if it is labial.

Examples of words containing this prefix:

nahkwunestai nahkwunusta nahkw'essui

Related Words:   Affixes


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