mokykon
Kari'na
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From moky (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + -kon (plural suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]mókykon
- (Venezuela) the animate plural distal demonstrative pronoun; those yonder, those over there
- Synonym: (Suriname) mòkan
Inflection
[edit]| 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
[edit]- Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña[1], 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[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275