tünwanno

Maquiritari Edit

Etymology Edit

Possibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno, by analogy with künwanno and önwanno. The Maquiritari third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.

Pronunciation Edit

IPA^(key): [tɨŋwanno]

Pronoun Edit

tünwanno

the third-person plural pronoun; they, them.

Inflection Edit

Maquiritari personal pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
first person exclusive	ewü,^Y üwü^D	nña	nña
first person inclusive	—	küwü	künwanno
second person	amödö,^Y ömödö^D	—	önwanno
third person	tüwü	—	tünwanno
Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect.

References Edit

Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tünwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume 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^[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021