künwanno

Maquiritari

Etymology

Likely from forms such as Proto-Cariban *kïwï (first-person inclusive dual 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 kïmënjamo, Wayana kunmëramkom, Waiwai kïwjam, Hixkaryana kɨwyamo. However, this leaves the Maquiritari -n- unexplained, unless perhaps the first element of the Maquiritari term corresponds not to Proto-Cariban *kïwï but to first-person inclusive forms such as Trió kïmë, Wayana kunmë. Synchronically as if kü- (first-person inclusive prefix) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno.

Pronoun

künwanno

  1. the first-person inclusive plural pronoun; me and all of you, we (inclusive).

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), “kɨnwanno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “künwanno”, 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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