w-

Usage notes
w- appears before stems that begin with ii.

Usage notes
This prefix is unrealized (disappears) when the stem it is attached to begins with a consonant. When it is used in the third person, the third-person marker itself is unrealized, but it palatalizes this suffix  to  and lengthens the vowel after it if possible, so that  appears to disappear (as it becomes indistinguishable from the pre-vocalic form of the third-person marker  that palatalized it).

This prefix comes between the person marker and the verb stem.

Usage notes
The form is used with stems that start with a vowel;  is used with those that start with a consonant, in which case the initial consonant is also palatalized. In practice, since all intransitive verbs to which this prefix can attach start with a vowel, only appears on certain transitive verbs.