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Kari'na
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ômjamo (second-person collective pronoun) + *rô (emphatic particle), the former from *ômô (second-person singular pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix), but later analogically rebuilt. Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed from the singular/non-collective form combined with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Apalaí amarokomo, Akurio ëmënyamo, Carijona añamoro, Trió ëmënjamo, Wayana ëmëlamkom, Hixkaryana omnyamo, Kaxuyana omyarɨ, Waiwai amyamro, Akawaio amörönokong, Macushi amîrî'nîkon, Pemon amörönokon, Ye'kwana önwanno.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
amyjaron
- (East Suriname) the second-person plural pronoun; you
Usage notes
The forms recorded in other dialect grammars suggest that Courtz may have mistranscribed this word, and that it may properly be amynjaro(n) ~ amonjaro(n), with the nj digraph, as expected, pronounced as if ij in Suriname.
Inflection
Kari'na personal pronouns
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 52–53, 223, 224, 226
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “amoro”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 82; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 84
- Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “amyijaro”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume, University of Oregon, page 713
- Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña, Maracaibo, page 49