Reconstruction:Proto-Cariban/kɨwjamo
Proto-Cariban
editEtymology
editFrom *kɨwɨ (first-person inclusive dual pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix).
Pronoun
edit*kɨwjamo
- the first-person inclusive collective pronoun; all of us, me and all of you, we (inclusive)
- Synonym: *kɨmjamo
Inflection
editProto-Cariban personal pronouns
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages[1], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
- Gildea, Spike, Doris Payne (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?”, in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas, volume 2, number 2, Belém, pages 19–72
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “künwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon