y-

Etymology
From, from ; see those entries for more. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Prefix

 * ybarred, yclept, yclad, ybaptized, yslain, yronne
 * ybarred, yclept, yclad, ybaptized, yslain, yronne

Alternative forms

 * ya-
 * a-

Prefix

 * 1) he or she used for conjugating verbs to the subjective or nominative case of the personal pronoun

Etymology
From, from unstressed , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Usage notes

 * Not productive in Modern English.
 * This prefix represents a common Germanic collective prefix, as well as a perfective prefix which was used to form past participles. Already by the Old English period such participles could be used with or without it, and as it passed into Middle English forms, , and , it became less productive. The prefix was later adopted as a conscious archaism by some writers such as Edmund Spenser, who prepended it to existing past participles.

Derived terms

 * (Modern English: enough)
 * (Modern English: enough)
 * (Modern English: enough)
 * (Modern English: enough)
 * (Modern English: enough)

Descendants

 * (obsolete)

Prefix

 * 1) a marker for the third person object

Usage notes
The form taken by this prefix depends on the first syllable of the stem it attaches to: In addition, if the first syllable is an open syllable and not reduced, then its vowel is lengthened, even in the case where the prefix itself disappears.
 * if the first syllable begins with a vowel.
 * (i.e. the prefix disappears) if the first syllable begins with a consonant.
 * if the first syllable begins with two consonants, e.g. as a result of syllable reduction.
 * if the first syllable begins with two consonants and its vowel is.

Etymology 2
The allomorphs and  are direct descendants of the original, used before consonants. However, Proto-Cariban had on vowel-initial stems; the Ye'kwana forms  and  are innovations that it shares with certain other Cariban languages. For the former, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. The latter, meanwhile, derives from an earlier form also found in several languages of the 🇨🇬 branch.

Usage notes
The form taken by this prefix depends on the first syllable of the stem it attaches to: In addition, if the first syllable is an open syllable and not reduced, then its vowel is lengthened, even in the case where the prefix itself disappears.
 * if the first syllable begins with a vowel other than.
 * if the first syllable begins with a vowel.
 * (i.e. the prefix disappears) if the first syllable begins with a consonant. The initial consonant is also palatalized.
 * But, with postpositions only, instead if the first syllable begins with a consonant, , , or.
 * if the first syllable begins with two consonants, e.g. as a result of syllable reduction.

In the Cunucunuma River dialect, the forms taken and their distribution are somewhat different:
 * (i.e. the prefix disappears) if the reference is deictic, referring to a specified object.
 * (in free variation with ) if the first syllable begins with a vowel other than.
 * if the first syllable begins with a vowel.
 * if the first syllable begins with a consonant. The initial consonant is also palatalized.
 * But, with postpositions only, instead if the first syllable begins with a consonant (unclear if limited to, , , and ).