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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *nɨjo, *mɨjo (“husband”), with epenthetic initial i- after syllable reduction.
Pronunciation
Noun
inño (possessed inño)
- husband
Usage notes
This noun has an irregular form chonñoi when possessed by a third-person entity; both the suffix -i instead of -∅ and the cho- form of the third-person prefix y- are unexpected.
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “inño”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 174
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ɲno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, pages 62–65, 72: “inño”