tünwanno

Maquiritari

Etymology

Possibly from tü- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno, by analogy with künwanno and önwanno. The Maquiritari third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.

Pronoun

tünwanno

  1. the third-person plural pronoun; they, them.

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