Chapter 20: The U-Group

There are 4 members of the U-Group of Pronominal Prefixes, 3 of which we
have already seen.

   u-      ::  it does something to it
   hu-     ::  it does something to him
   ku-     ::  it does something to her
   shaku-  ::  he does something to her

The forms that these prefixes take with the five Stem Classes we have
seen is shown in the table below.

            C        X        L        LX       A
   ---------------------------------------------------
   u-     | u-       ú-       ú-       ú-       u-
   hu-    | hu-      hú-      hú-      hú-      hu-
   ku-    | ku-      kú-      kú-      kú-      ku-
   shaku- | shaku-   shakú-   shakú-   shakú-   shaku-

We can note the following patterns:

   * All the prefixes end in -u- in the C-Stem, X-Stem and A-Stem forms.
     The -a- at the beginning of A-Stem Verb Bases is replaced by the -u-
     of the Pronominal Prefix.

   * All the prefixes end in -ú- in the L-Stem and LX-Stem forms.

These four prefixes are all straightforward in their meanings and uses.

   utënö'ös      ::  it's watching over it
   hutënö'ös     ::  it's watching over him
   kutënö'ös     ::  it's watching over her
   shakutënö'ös  ::  he's watching over her



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