kanno

See also: Kanno, kannõ, kannō, kaṇṇo, and kännö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	kanno
Brazilian standard	kanno
New Tribes	canno

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix) + *rô (emphatic particle), with subsequent loss of the first syllable. Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Trió mëëjamo, Kari'na mòkaro. The first element is equivalent to ma'kamo / makkamo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kanno]

Pronoun

kanno

(Caura River dialect) the animate plural medial demonstrative pronoun; these, those
(Cunucunuma River dialect) the animate plural proximal demonstrative pronoun; these

Inflection

Ye'kwana demonstratives
category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Caura River dialect	Cunucunuma River dialect	inanimate pronoun	singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,^Y e'dö^D	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial	proximal	mödö	mööyö,^Y möödhö,^D mööñö^V	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü	mökkü	makkamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,^Y iiyö^D	ñöödö	ñanno	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—

^Y Caura River dialect.
^D Cunucunuma River dialect.
^V Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “kanno”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 122
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 283
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, 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