Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV mökkü
Brazilian standard mäkkö
New Tribes mäccö

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Kari'na moky. The geminate k/glottal stop is unexpected; but compare the form möökü given by Hall in her glossary, perhaps the etymologically original one.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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mökkü

  1. (Caura River dialect) the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that
  2. (Cunucunuma River dialect) the animate singular medial demonstrative pronoun; this, that

Inflection

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mökkü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 283, 394:mö:kü 'that one' [] Animate medial Singular mö'kü [] mö:kü - this, this one just there
  • 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