mönse
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | mönse |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | mänse |
| New Tribes | mänse |
Etymology
[edit]For the first element, compare the distal inanimate demonstrative pronoun möönü. The second element -se is also found in eese.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mönse
- there (in another division or unit of land)
Inflection
[edit]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
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mönse”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 260–263
- 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, 394: “[mẹ̈nse] 'behind' […] mönse - on the other side”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “mənse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021