mökkü
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Galibi Carib moky. The geminate k/glottal stop is unexpected.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [məkkɨ]
Pronoun
mökkü
Inflection
Maquiritari demonstratives
| category | inanimate pronoun |
animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ye’kwana dialect | De’kwana dialect | singular | plural | speaker | anaphoric | land | side | watercourse | approximate | |
| proximal | proximal | edö,Y e'döD | mö'dö | — | eetö | eese | eesemjo | sadö | ||
| medial | mödöY | mööyö,Y möñöD | kanno | — | möötö | — | — | — | — | |
| distal | medial | möönü,Y mönöD | mökkü, mö'kü | makkamo, ma'kamo | inña | möntö | mönse | aneeseja | mönsemjo | maadö |
| invisible | distal | iyö,Y iiyöD | ñöödö,Y ñö'döD | ñanno,Y nñannoD | — | yöötö | unwaa | — | — | — |
| Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. | ||||||||||
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “mökkü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
- 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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