✶de pron. “you (pl.)”

✶de pron. “you (pl.)”

References ✧ PE23/69, 119-120; VT48/24; VT49/50-51; WJ/363

Glosses

• “2nd person plural pronoun” ✧ VT48/24
• “2nd-person” ✧ PE23/69
• “a more deferential [form], superior” ✧ PE23/120
• “P[lural] 2” ✧ VT49/50 (le/de)
• “Second reference P.” ✧ PE23/119 (ke/de)

Variations

• de ✧ PE23/69; PE23/120; VT48/24; VT49/51
• ke/de ✧ PE23/119
• dē ✧ PE23/120
• dĕ ✧ PE23/120
• le ✧ PE23/120
• le/de ✧ VT49/50
• de/le ✧ WJ/363

Related

• le “you (sg.)”

Changes

• le >> de “a more deferential [form], superior” ✧ PE23/120

Element In

• ✶-dyā “your (polite)”
• ✶inde “you (polite emphatic)”
• ✶-ndā “your (polite plural)”
• Q. indë “yourselves”

Derivatives

• > Q. -ldë¹ “you (plural)” ✧ VT49/51
  • ⇒ ᴺQ. !eldë “you (plural emphatic)”
• > Q. le “you (plural)” ✧ PE23/69; VT49/51
  • ⇒ ᴺQ. !lenya “yours (plural)”
• > Q. -l(yë) “you (polite)” ✧ VT49/51
• > Q. -stë¹ “you (dual)” ✧ VT49/51