oonuh

English

Pronoun

oonuh

  1. (Caribbean, dialectal) You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.
    • 2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:
      Both of oonuh was so young

Gullah

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Igbo únù. Compare Bahamian Creole yinna, Bajan wunna, Jamaican Creole unnu, Sranan Tongo unu.

Pronoun

oonuh

  1. you (plural)
    • 2017 August 10, “The World of Gullah”, in Fodor's Travel‎[1] (travel guide; overall work in English), El Segundo, California: Fodor's Travel, archived from the original on 4 February 2022:
      If oonuh ent kno weh oonuh dah gwine, oonuh should kno weh oonuh come f'um.
      If you don't know where you're going, you should know where you've come from.

Inflection

Gullah Geechee personal pronouns
Number singular plural
puss'n subject object-oblique subject object-oblique
fus Uh,
A1 		me we
sekint yuh, ya1 oonuh, oona1
tud e,
i1 		um dey dem

1 alternate spelling


References

  • Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
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