oonuh
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English
Pronoun
oonuh
- (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
Etymology
From Igbo únù. Compare Bahamian Creole yinna, Bajan wunna, Jamaican Creole unnu, Sranan Tongo unu.
Pronoun
oonuh
- 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, retrieved 12 August 2020:
- 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.
References
- Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)