See also: inno

Ye'kwana edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *nɨjo, *mɨjo (husband).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

inño (possessed inño)

  1. husband

Usage notes edit

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.

References edit

  • 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