mönse

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See also: monse and Monse

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV mönse
Brazilian standard mänse
New Tribes mänse

Etymology

For the first element, compare the distal inanimate demonstrative pronoun möönü. The second element -se is also found in eese.

Pronunciation

Adverb

mönse

  1. there (in another division or unit of land)

Inflection

Ye'kwana demonstratives
category inanimate
pronoun 		animate pronoun deictic adverb
Caura River dialect Cunucunuma River dialect singular plural speaker anaphoric land side watercourse approximate
proximal proximal edö,Y e'döD mö'dö — eetö eese eesemjo sadö
medial mödö mööyö,Y möödhö,D mööñöV kanno — möötö — — — —
distal medial möönü mökkü makkamo inña möntö mönse aneeseja mönsemjo maadö
invisible distal iyö,Y iiyöD ñöödö ñanno — yöötö unwaa — — —
Y. Caura River dialect.
D. Cunucunuma River dialect.
V. Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mönse”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 260–263
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 394: “[mẹ̈nse] 'behind' […] mönse - on the other side”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “mənse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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