mönse
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Ye'kwana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
For the first element, compare the distal inanimate demonstrative pronoun möönü. The second element -se is also found in eese.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
mönse
- there (in another division or unit of land)
Inflection[edit]
Ye'kwana demonstratives
| category | inanimate pronoun |
animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caura River dialect | Cunucunuma River dialect | singular | plural | speaker | anaphoric | land | side | watercourse | approximate | |
| proximal | proximal | edö,Y e'döD | mö'dö | — | eetö | eese | eesemjo | sadö | ||
| medial | mödö | mööyö,Y mööñöD | kanno | — | möötö | — | — | — | — | |
| distal | medial | möönü | mökkü | makkamo | inña | möntö | mönse | aneeseja | mönsemjo | maadö |
| invisible | distal | iyö,Y iiyöD | ñöödö | ñanno | — | yöötö | unwaa | — | — | — |
| Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect. | ||||||||||
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mönse”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 260–263
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mönse”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “mənse”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021