mòkaron

Kari'na

Alternative forms

• mòkaro (Venezuela, West Suriname)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix) + *rô (emphatic particle). Compare Apalaí mokaro, Trió mohjan, Waiwai mïkyam, Akawaio mïkyamro, Macushi inkamoro, Ye'kwana kanno.

Pronunciation

• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [mohkaɺ̢õ]

Pronoun

mòkaron

1. (East Suriname) the animate plural medial demonstrative pronoun; those

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, pages 52–53, 318
• 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^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “moko”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 296; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[3], Paris, 1956, page 289
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “mo'karo”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎^[4], University of Oregon, page 773