-uwö

uwo UWO üwö Ye'kwana Pronunciation -wwə Some frication of the first /w/ may be observed; Hall records a pronunciation with a postvelar fricative (~ [ɣ]?). Postposition mch postposition marks an agent or dative beneficiary of the action; to, by Usage notes The first mch u of this postposition is treated as a consonant wherever possible, forming the coda of the syllable of a preceding vowel and selecting for the preconsonantal rather than the prevocalic forms of personal prefixes: thus mch öuwö to you rather than mch oyuwö. References uwö 278, 296 There is also a voiced post-velar fricative of which I have only one example: [öǥwö] 'to you'; and the corresponding, [cöǥwö] 'to him'. wö 'to, by'