Meaning
You (plural) — 'you all', 'y'all'. Patois keeps a distinct plural 'you' where standard English does not, so 'unnu' always addresses two or more people: 'unnu ready?' asks are you all ready. It serves as the plural possessive too — 'unnu tings' means your, or you-all's, things. A variant spelling of 'unu', of West African (Igbo) origin, it is one of the clearest African survivals in the grammar of the language, filling the gap English leaves and doing the constant everyday work of addressing a group of people together as one.
Examples
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Unnu come in an siddung.
You all come in and sit down.
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A weh unnu a go?
Where are you all going?
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Unnu betta behave unnuself.
You all had better behave yourselves.
Origin
Of West African (Igbo 'unu') origin — a genuine plural second-person pronoun that survived into Jamaican Patois, filling the gap English leaves.
How it’s used
A true plural 'you', one of the clearest African survivals in Patois. Also possessive ('unnu own').