moky

See also: mòky

English

Etymology

Compare Icelandic mökkvi (“cloud, mist”), mökkr (“a dense cloud”), Welsh mwg (“smoke”), and English muggy, muck.

Adjective

moky (comparative more moky, superlative most moky)

  1. (obsolete) misty; dark; murky

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Kari'na

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Apalaí moky, Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Ye'kwana mökkü.

Pronunciation
  • (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA(key): [moːkɨ]
  • (East Suriname) IPA(key): [moʔkɨ]

Pronoun

moky

  1. the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that yonder, that over there

Inflection
Kari'na demonstratives
category inanimate pronoun animate pronoun
singular plural singular plural
proximal visible ero erokon mose mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV
invisible eny enykon
medial — — mòko mòkaro(n)
distal visible moro morokon moky mòkan, mókykonV
invisible mony monykon
anaphoric iro irokon inoro inaro(n), inorokonV
V. Venezuelan dialect.

References
  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 318
  • 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
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mokë”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 296; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 289
  • Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “moky”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎, University of Oregon, page 773
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