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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Possibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno, by analogy with künwanno and önwanno. The Ye'kwana third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
tünwanno
- the third-person plural pronoun; they, them
Inflection
Ye'kwana personal pronouns
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünwanno”, 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) “tɨnwano”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021