möönü
See also: móonu
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *mônɨ. Compare Trió mënï, Wayana mïn, Waiwai mïnï, Galibi Carib mony.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [məːnɨ]
Pronoun
möönü
- (Ye'kwana dialect) The inanimate distal demonstrative pronoun; that, those.
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), “möönü”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-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