ᒪᔦᐤ mayew

(negation)

(particle)

it is not

(pronoun, animate/inanimate)

s/he, it is not

Examples

ᓂᑮ ᐗᓂᐦᑖᓐ ᒣᔅᑲᓇᐤ, ᐃᑗᐤ᙮ ᒪᔦᐤ ᐆᒪ ᑳ ᐃᑕᐦᐋᒣᔭᐦᒄ᙮
"I lost the trail," he says. "This isn't the trail we were following."
Herbert McLeod - The Deborah James Corpus [1980]

Etymology

contraction of namayew

3 results found

Some words starting with 'mayew'

ᒪᔦᐗᒃ mayewak
pronoun, animate

it is not them, they are not

ᒪᔦᐎᑌ mayewite
particle

not in this direction, not in this location
not in this manner, not this way

in the wrong direction, in the wrong location
in an incorrect manner, the wrong way