moky
See also: mòky
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare Icelandic mökkvi (“cloud, mist”), mökkr (“a dense cloud”), Welsh mwg (“smoke”), and English muggy, muck.
Adjective edit
moky (comparative more moky, superlative most moky)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Kari'na edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Apalaí moky, Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Ye'kwana mökkü.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
moky
- the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that yonder, that over there
Inflection edit
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 edit
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 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) “mokë”, 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) “moky”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume[4], University of Oregon, page 773