tünwanno
Ye'kwana
editEtymology
editPossibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno, by analogy with künwanno and önwanno. The Ye'kwana third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
edittünwanno
Inflection
editsingular | dual | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
first person exclusive | ewüY, üwüD | nña | nña |
first person inclusive | — | küwü | künwanno |
second person | amödöY, ömödöD | — | önwanno |
third person | tüwü | — | tünwanno |
Y Caura River dialect
D Cunucunuma River dialect
References
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 120
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 282
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨnwano”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021