mön-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mon"

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• man-, mon-, möm-, möni- (allomorphs)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mən-]

Prefix

mön-

1. Marks a transitive verb as having a first-person or first-person-dual-exclusive agent/subject and a second-person patient/object.

Usage notes

The form taken by this prefix depends on the first syllable of the stem it attaches to:

• mön- if the first syllable begins with a vowel or consonant other than a or j and its vowel is anything but o.
• man- if the first syllable begins with a vowel a.
• mon- if the first syllable begins with a vowel or consonant other than j and its vowel is o.
• möm- if the first syllable begins with a consonant j.
• möni- if the first syllable begins with two consonants, e.g. as a result of syllable reduction.

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal markers

	pronoun	noun possessor/ series II verb argument		postposition object		series I verb argument
						transitive patient	intransitive patient-like		intransitive agent-like	transitive agent
first person	ewü	y-, ∅-, ü-, u-1						w-, wi-
first person dual inclusive	küwü	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-								k-, kii-, ki-1
second person	amödö	ö-, öy-/öd-, o-, oy-/od-, a-, ay-/ad-							m-, mi-
first person dual exclusive	nña	y-/d-, ch-, ∅-, i-1			chö-	∅-	n-, ni-
third person	tüwü					n-, ni-
distant past third person		—				kün-, kun-, kin-, ken-, küm-, kum-, kim-, kini-
coreferential/reflexive	—	t-, tü-, tu-, ti-, te-				—
reciprocal	—	—	öö-
With following vowel lengthened if in an unreduced open syllable.

	series I verb argument: transitive agent and transitive patient
first person > second person	mön-, man-, mon-, möm-, möni-
first person dual exclusive > second person
second person > first person	k-, kü-, ku-, ki-
second person > first person dual exclusive
third person > any person X …or… any person X > third person	see person X in the chart above

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 186