inño

See also: inno

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *nɨjo, *mɨjo (“husband”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [inɲo]

Noun

inño (possessed inño)

  1. husband

Usage notes

This noun has an irregular form chonñoi when possessed by a third-person entity; both the suffix -i instead of -∅ and the cho- form of the third-person prefix y- are unexpected.

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “inño”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 174
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-ɲno”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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