enykon

Kari'na

Etymology

From eny (inanimate singular invisible proximal demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -kon (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [enɨkkõ]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [enɨːkõ]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [enɨʔkõ]

Pronoun

enykon

1. the inanimate plural invisible proximal demonstrative pronoun; these (that I can’t see)

Inflection

Kari'na demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun		animate pronoun
		singular	plural	singular	plural
proximal	visible	ero	erokon	mose	mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV
	invisible	eny	enykon
medial		—	—	mòko	mòkaro(n)
distal	visible	moro	morokon	moky	mòkan, mókykonV
	invisible	mony	monykon
anaphoric		iro	irokon	inoro	inaro(n), inorokonV
V. Venezuelan dialect.

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 53
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “enï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 149; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 147