-janño

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See also: Janno

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV -janño
Brazilian standard -jannho
New Tribes -janño

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-janño

  1. proper, true, … itself; attaches to a noun to intensify it or emphasize that it itself, the true it, is the one under discussion

Usage notes

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This morpheme is properly a clitic rather than a suffix.

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “⸗janño”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon