amyjaron

Kari'na

Alternative forms

• amyjaro (West Suriname)
• amonjáro (Venezuela)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ômjamo (second-person collective pronoun) + *rô (emphatic particle), the former from *ômô (second-person singular pronoun) + *-jamo (collective suffix), but later analogically rebuilt. Analogous forms in other Cariban languages are similarly formed from the singular/non-collective form combined with various collective and emphatic suffixes in different orders. Compare Apalaí amarokomo, Akurio ëmënyamo, Carijona añamoro, Trió ëmënjamo, Wayana ëmëlamkom, Hixkaryana omnyamo, Kaxuyana omyarɨ, Waiwai amyamro, Akawaio amörönokong, Macushi amîrî'nîkon, Pemon amörönokon, Ye'kwana önwanno.

Pronunciation

• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [amɨːjaɺ̢õ]

Pronoun

amyjaron

1. (East Suriname) the second-person plural pronoun; you

Usage notes

The forms recorded in other dialect grammars suggest that Courtz may have mistranscribed this word, and that it may properly be amynjaro(n) ~ amonjaro(n), with the nj digraph, as expected, pronounced as if ij in Suriname.

Inflection

Kari'na personal pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
first person exclusive	awu	nàna, ànaW	nàna, ànaW
first person inclusive	—	kỳko, kymoroV	kỳkaro(n), kymonjároV
second person	amoro	—	amyjaro(n), amonjároV
third person	(use demonstratives)
V. Venezuelan dialect. W. West Surinamese dialect.

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 52–53, 223, 224, 226
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “amoro”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 82; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 84
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “amyijaro”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎^[3], University of Oregon, page 713
• Álvarez, José (2016) Esbozo de una gramática de la lengua kari’ña‎^[4], Maracaibo, page 49