inño

See also: inno

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	inño
Brazilian standard	innho
New Tribes	inño

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nɨjo, *mɨjo (“husband”), with epenthetic initial i- after syllable reduction.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [inɲo]

Noun

inño (possessed inño)

husband

Usage notes

This noun has an irregular form chonñoi when possessed by a third-person entity; both the suffix -i instead of -∅ and the cho- form of the third-person prefix y- are unexpected.

Derived terms

inñonö

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “inño”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 174
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ɲno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 72: “inño”