English

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Pronoun

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oonuh

  1. (Caribbean, dialectal) You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
    • 2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:
      Both of oonuh was so young

Gullah

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Etymology

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From Igbo únù. Compare Bahamian Creole yinna, Bajan wunna, Jamaican Creole unnu, Sranan Tongo unu.

Pronoun

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oonuh

  1. you (plural)
    • 2017 August 10, “The World of Gullah”, in Fodor's Travel[1] (travel guide; overall work in English), El Segundo, California: Fodor's Travel, retrieved 12 August 2020:
      If oonuh ent kno weh oonuh dah gwine, oonuh should kno weh oonuh come f'um.
      If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you've come from.

References

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  • Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)