mönse

See also: monse and Monse

Ye'kwana

Etymology

For the first element, compare the distal inanimate demonstrative pronoun möönü. The second element -se is also found in eese.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [mənse]

Adverb

mönse

  1. there (in another division or unit of land)

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) “mönse”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 260–263
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mönse”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “mənse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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