iyö
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Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | iyö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | iyä |
| New Tribes | iyä |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Cariban *irô (inanimate anaphoric demonstrative pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Kari'na iro.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]iyö
Inflection
[edit]Ye'kwana demonstratives
| category | inanimate pronoun |
animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caura River dialect | Cunucunuma River dialect | singular | plural | speaker | anaphoric | land | side | watercourse | approximate | |
| proximal | proximal | edö,Y e'döD | mö'dö | — | eetö | eese | eesemjo | sadö | ||
| medial | mödö | mööyö,Y möödhö,D mööñöV | kanno | — | möötö | — | — | — | — | |
| distal | medial | möönü | mökkü | makkamo | inña | möntö | mönse | aneeseja | mönsemjo | maadö |
| invisible | distal | iyö,Y iiyöD | ñöödö | ñanno | — | yöötö | unwaa | — | — | — |
| Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect. V. Alto Ventuari River dialect. | ||||||||||
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 122, 440
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 391: “Inanimate distal Singular i:yö: […] i:yö - this one, it is”
- 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