mökkü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	mökkü
Brazilian standard	mäkkö
New Tribes	mäccö

Alternative forms

• mö'kü

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 möödhö,D mööñöV	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. V. Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mökkü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 122
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 283, 394: “mö:kü 'that one' […] Animate medial Singular mö'kü […] mö:kü - this, this one just there”
• 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^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275