tünwanno
Maquiritari
Etymology
Possibly from tü- (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.
Pronoun
tünwanno
- the third-person plural pronoun; they, them.
Inflection
Maquiritari personal pronouns
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| first person exclusive | üwü,D ewüY | nña | — |
| first person inclusive | — | küwü | künwanno |
| second person | ömödö,D amödöY | — | önwanno |
| third person | tüwü | — | tünwanno |
| Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. | |||
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “tɨnwano”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “tünwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120