tünwanno

Ye'kwana

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): [tɨŋwanno]

Pronoun

tünwanno

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

Inflection

Ye'kwana personal pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
first person exclusive	ewü,Y üwüD	nña	nña
first person inclusive	—	küwü	künwanno
second person	amödö,Y ömödöD	—	önwanno
third person	tüwü	—	tünwanno
Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect.

References

• 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