unk

See also: -unk, unk., -ünk, and Unk

Translingual

Symbol

unk

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Enawené-Nawé.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Enawené-Nawé terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English unc, accusative and dative form of wit, from Proto-Germanic *unk (accusative of *wet) and *unkiz (dative/instrumental of *wet).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /unk/

Pronoun

unk (nominative wit) (Early Middle English)

  1. First-person dual accusative pronoun: us twain, the two of us.
  2. (reflexive) our (two) selves.

See also

Middle English personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
singular 1st person I, ich, ik me min
mi1		 min
2nd person þou þe þin
þi1		 þin
3rd person m he him
hine2		 him his his
hisen
f sche, heo hire
heo 		hire hire
hires, hiren
n hit hit
him2		 his, hit —
dual3 1st person wit unk unker
2nd person ȝit inc inker
plural 1st person we us, ous oure oure
oures, ouren
2nd person4 ye yow your your
youres, youren
3rd person inh. he hem
he2		 hem here here
heres, heren
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *unk.

Pronoun

unk

  1. (Sylt, dated) Object case of wat: us two, both of ourselves

Determiner

unk (invariable)

  1. (Sylt, dated) our, of us two (first-person dual possessive determiner)

Pronoun

unk (plural unken)

  1. (Sylt, dated) ours, that of us two (first-person dual possessive pronoun)

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Sylt dialect)
personal possessive
subject case object case singular
referent 		plural referent
full reduced full reduced attributive independent
singular 1st ik 'k mi min minen
2nd dü – di din dinen
3rd m hi 'r höm 'n sin sinen
f jü 's höör 's höör höören
n hat et, 't höm et, 't sin sinen
dual 1st wat unk unk unken
2nd at junk junk junken
3rd jat jam 's jaar jaaren
plural 1st wü üüs üüs üüsen
2nd i juu juu juuen
3rd ja 's jam 's jaar jaaren
  • The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
  • Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
  • The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
  • Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

Old Saxon

Pronoun

unk

  1. accusative/dative of wit
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