mökkü

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Kari'na moky. The geminate k/glottal stop is unexpected; but compare the form möökü given by Hall in her glossary, perhaps the etymologically original one.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [məkkɨ]

Pronoun

mökkü

  1. (Caura River dialect) The animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that.
  2. (Cunucunuma River dialect) The animate singular medial demonstrative pronoun; this, that.

Inflection
Ye'kwana demonstratives
category inanimate
pronoun		 animate pronoun deictic adverb
Caura River dialect Cunucunuma River dialect singular plural speaker anaphoric land side watercourse approximate
proximal proximal edö,Y e'döD mö'dö — eetö eese eesemjo sadö
medial mödö mööyö,Y mööñöD kanno — möötö — — — —
distal medial möönü mökkü makkamo inña möntö mönse aneeseja mönsemjo maadö
invisible distal iyö,Y iiyöD ñöödö ñanno — yöötö unwaa — — —
Y. Caura River dialect.
D. Cunucunuma River dialect.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mökkü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mö:kü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 394
  • 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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