See also: mue, mué, and Appendix:Variations of "mu"

Turkish

Preposition

  1. Used to form interrogatives.
    Şu seksi adamı gördün mü?
    Did you see that sexy man?
    Kör müsün?
    Are you blind?
    Amerika'daki komşun Türk müydü?
    Was your neighbor in the USA a Turk?

Usage notes

  • Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative particles, as well as the past tense suffixes.
  • This form is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "ö" or "ü". Other forms used with different vowels are: mu?, mi? and ?

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɨ]

Verb

  1. (transitive) to tie

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “imü:dü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “imɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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