konnorónhkhwaʼ

Mohawk

Etymology

kon- (“transitive pronominal prefix”) +‎ -noron- (“it is precious”) +‎ -hkw- (“instrumental suffix”) +‎ -haʼ (“habitual suffix”), literally “I make you precious”, with the root -noron- from Proto-North Iroquoian *-noɹõ- (“to find difficult, to be valuable”) from Proto-Iroquoian *-nuːɹõ- (“to be difficult, to fail to do”).

Verb

konnorónhkhwaʼ (incorporating form -noronhkhw-)

1. I love you

Derived terms

• konnorónhkhwaʼ

References

• Michelson, Gunther; Michelson, Karin; Canadian Deer, Glenda (2024), A Dictionary of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) with Connections to the Past, University of Toronto Press, page 264
• Charles Julian (2010), A history of the Iroquoian Languages‎^[1], University of Manitoba, page 526