okâwîmâw

Plains Cree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʊˈkɑː.wiːˌmɑːw]
• Hyphenation: o‧kâ‧wî‧mâw

Noun

okâwîmâw anim (plural okâwîmâwak, Syllabics ᐅᑳᐑᒫᐤ)

1. mother

Declension

Possessive inflection of okâwîmâw (stem: -kâwiy-)

		singular	plural
Indefinite		okâwîmâw	okâwîmâwak
Singular	First person	nikâwiy	nikâwiyak
	Second person	kikâwiy	kikâwiyak
	Third person	okâwiya	okâwiya
	Obviative	okâwîyiwa	ikâwîyiwa
Plural	First person (excl.)	nikâwînan	nikâwînanak
	First person (incl.)	kikâwînaw	kikâwînawak
	Second person	kikâwîwâw	kikâwîwâwak
	Third person	okâwîwâwa	okâwîwâwa
	Obviative	okâwîyiwa	okâwîyiwa

References

• H. C. Wolfart (1973) “Plains Cree: A grammatical study”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 63, number 5, Philadelphia, page 17
• Jean L. Okimâsis (2018) Cree: Language of the plains‎^[1], University of Regina Press, →ISBN, page 266