mokykon

Kari'na

Etymology

From moky (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -kon (plural suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Venezuela) IPA(key): [moːkɨkõ]

Pronoun

mókykon

  1. (Venezuela) the animate plural distal demonstrative pronoun; those yonder, those over there
    Synonym: (Suriname) mòkan

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
  • Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña‎, Maracaibo, page 53
  • 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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