makkamo

Maquiritari

Alternative forms

ma'kamo

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix). Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Trió mëkïjamo, Wayana mëkjam, Waiwai mïkyam, Galibi Carib mòkan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [makkamo]

Pronoun

makkamo

(Ye'kwana dialect) The animate plural distal demonstrative pronoun; those.
(De'kwana dialect) The animate plural medial demonstrative pronoun; these, those.

Inflection

Maquiritari demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Ye’kwana dialect	De’kwana dialect	inanimate pronoun	singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,^Y e'dö^D	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial	proximal	mödö^Y	mööyö,^Y möñö^D	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü,^Y mönö^D	mökkü, mö'kü	makkamo, ma'kamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,^Y iiyö^D	ñöödö,^Y ñö'dö^D	ñanno,^Y nñanno^D	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—
Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect.

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “makkamo”, 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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