mökkü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	mökkü
Brazilian standard	mäkkö
New Tribes	mäccö

Alternative forms

mö'kü

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Kari'na moky. The geminate k/glottal stop is unexpected; but compare the form möökü given by Hall in her glossary, perhaps the etymologically original one.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [məkkɨ]

Pronoun

mökkü

(Caura River dialect) the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that
(Cunucunuma River dialect) the animate singular medial demonstrative pronoun; this, that

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) “mökkü”, 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, pages 229, 283, 394: “mö:kü 'that one' […] Animate medial Singular mö'kü […] mö:kü - this, this one just there”
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 and 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