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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Likely from forms such as Proto-Cariban *kɨwɨ (first-person inclusive dual pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix) + *rô (emphatic particle). Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed from the dual/non-collective form combined with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Trió kïmënjamo, Wayana kunmëlamkom, Waiwai kïwyam, Hixkaryana kàwyamo. However, this leaves the Ye'kwana -n- unexplained, unless perhaps the first element of the Ye'kwana term corresponds not to Proto-Cariban *kɨwɨ but to first-person inclusive forms such as Trió kïmë, Wayana kunmë. By surface analysis, k(ü)- (first-person inclusive prefix) + *nwanno (plural personal pronoun base).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
künwanno
- the first-person inclusive plural pronoun; all of us, me and all of you, we (inclusive)
Inflection
Ye'kwana personal pronouns
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “künwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 282
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “kɨnwanno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- 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