tünwanno

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Ye'kwana

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Etymology

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Possibly from t(ü)- (reflexive or coreference marker) + a plural personal pronoun base *nwanno, by analogy with künwanno and önwanno. The Ye'kwana third-person pronoun series is not reconstructible to Proto-Cariban.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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tünwanno

  1. the third-person plural pronoun; they, them

Inflection

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “tünwanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 120
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 282
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “tɨnwano”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021