önwanno

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *amë (second-person singular pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix) + *rë (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 ëmënjamo, Wayana ëmëramkom, Waiwai amjamro, Hixkaryana omnyamo. Synchronically as if ö- (second-person prefix) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno.

Pronoun

önwanno

  1. the second-person plural pronoun; you.

Inflection
Maquiritari personal pronouns
singular dual plural
first person exclusive üwü,D ewüY nña —
first person inclusive — küwü künwanno
second person ömödö,D amödöY — önwanno
third person tüwü — tünwanno
Y. Ye’kwana dialect.
D. De’kwana dialect.

References
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “ənwanno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “önwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120
  • 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
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