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wa-
wa-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "wa"
Curripaco
Prefix
wa-
- first person plural agent marker
Reference
- Swintha Danielsen, Tania Granadillo, Agreement in two Arawak languages, in The Typology of Semantic Alignment (edited by Mark Donohue, Søren Wichmann) (2008, ISBN 0199238383), page 398
Swahili
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ba-.
Prefix
wa- (singular m-)
- The prefix for noun class 2 denoting plurals of noun class 1.
See also
- Appendix:Swahili noun classes
Zulu
Prefix
-wa- (subject concord)
- Combining stem of a- (class 6).
Prefix
-wa- (object concord)
- them (class 6)
See also
Class 6 concords[edit]
Prefix
wa- (possessive concord)
- of (class 1, class 3)
See also
Class 1 concords[edit]
| Full noun prefix: | umu-2, um-, u-3 |
| Basic noun prefix: | mu-2, m-, -3 |
| Subject concord: | u-, -ka- |
| Object concord: | -mu-2, -m- |
| Possessive concord: | wa- |
| Adjective concord: | omu-1, om- |
| Relative concord: | o- |
| Pronoun: | yena, -ye, -khe1 |
| 1 With possessive concords. 2 With single-syllable stems. 3 With class 1a nouns. | |
| See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table. | |