kanno
See also: kannõ, kannō, kånnø, and kaṇṇo
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix) + *rô (emphatic particle), with subsequent loss of the first syllable. Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Trió mëëjamo, Galibi Carib mòkaro. The first element is equivalent to ma'kamo / makkamo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kanno]
Pronoun
kanno
- (Ye'kwana dialect) The animate plural medial demonstrative pronoun; these, those.
- (De'kwana dialect) The animate plural proximal demonstrative pronoun; these.
Inflection
Maquiritari demonstratives
| category | inanimate pronoun | animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ye’kwana dialect | De’kwana dialect | singular | plural | speaker | anaphoric | land | side | watercourse | approximate | |
| proximal | proximal | edö,Y e'döD | mö'dö | — | eetö | eese | eesemjo | sadö | ||
| medial | mödöY | mööyö,Y möñöD | kanno | — | möötö | — | — | — | — | |
| distal | medial | möönü,Y mönöD | mökkü, mö'kü | makkamo, ma'kamo | inña | möntö | mönse | aneeseja | mönsemjo | maadö |
| invisible | distal | iyö,Y iiyöD | ñöödö,Y ñö'döD | ñanno,Y nñannoD | — | yöötö | unwaa | — | — | — |
| Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. | ||||||||||
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “kanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
- 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, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275