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hw-

prefix

LanguageAhtna (United States)

Meaning
  1. marks a third-person plural possessor; their
  2. marks a third-person plural object of a postposition
  3. A prefix used to indicate that something belongs to a group of people (their) or to serve as an object of a postposition relating to a third-person plural group.
Examples

hw- + -taʼ (“father”) → hwtaʼ (“their father(s)”)

hw- + -taʼ (“father”) → hwtaʼ (“their father(s)”)

Part of speechprefix

Usage noteUsed for third-person plural possessors and object relations.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.