monykon

Kari'na

Etymology

From mony (inanimate singular invisible distal demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -kon (plural suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela) IPA^(key): [monɨkkõ]
• (West Suriname) IPA^(key): [monɨːkõ]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [monɨʔkõ]

Pronoun

monykon

1. the inanimate plural invisible distal demonstrative pronoun; those (that I can’t see)

Inflection

Kari'na demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun		animate pronoun
		singular	plural	singular	plural
proximal	visible	ero	erokon	mose	mòsaro(n), mojan, mòsékonV
	invisible	eny	enykon
medial		—	—	mòko	mòkaro(n)
distal	visible	moro	morokon	moky	mòkan, mókykonV
	invisible	mony	monykon
anaphoric		iro	irokon	inoro	inaro(n), inorokonV

^V Venezuelan dialect.

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 53
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “monï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 297; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 291