mòsekon

Kari'na

Etymology

From mose (recorded by Mosonyi and Álvarez as if mòse; animate singular anaphoric demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -kon (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [mohseːkõ]

Pronoun

mòsékon

1. (Venezuela) the animate plural proximal demonstrative pronoun; these

   Synonyms: (East Suriname) mòsaron, (West Suriname) mòsaro, (Suriname) mojan

Usage notes

Both the etymology of this word and its irregular stress pattern suggest that it may be mistranscribed, with the proper rendition being mosekon.

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

• Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña‎^[1], Maracaibo, page 53
• 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