moky

See also: mòky

English

Etymology

Compare Icelandic mökkvi (“cloud, mist”), mökkr (“a dense cloud”), Welsh mwg (“smoke”), and English muggy, muck.

Adjective

moky (comparative more moky, superlative most moky)

1. (obsolete) misty; dark; murky

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• kymo-

Kari'na

Alternative forms

• mòky (East Suriname)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ. Compare Apalaí moky, Trió mëkï, Wayana mëk, Waiwai mïkï, Ye'kwana mökkü.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [moːkɨ]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [moʔkɨ]

Pronoun

moky

1. the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that yonder, that over there

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^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, pages 53–54, 318
• 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
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mokë”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 296; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[3], Paris, 1956, page 289
• Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “moky”, in Speech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume‎^[4], University of Oregon, page 773