mönse

See also: monse and Monse

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	mönse
Brazilian standard	mänse
New Tribes	mänse

Etymology

For the first element, compare the distal inanimate demonstrative pronoun möönü. The second element -se is also found in eese.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mənse]

Adverb

mönse

1. there (in another division or unit of land)

Inflection

Ye'kwana demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Caura River dialect	Cunucunuma River dialect		singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,Y e'döD	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial		mödö	mööyö,Y möödhö,D mööñöV	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü	mökkü	makkamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,Y iiyöD	ñöödö	ñanno	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—
Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect. V. Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mönse”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 260–263
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mönse”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mənse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021