iiyö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *irô (anaphoric third-person pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Galibi Carib iro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [iːjə]
Pronoun
iiyö
- (De'kwana dialect) The inanimate distal demonstrative pronoun; that, those.
Inflection
Maquiritari demonstratives
category | inanimate pronoun | animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
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Ye’kwana dialect | De’kwana dialect | singular | plural | speaker | anaphoric | land | side | watercourse | approximate | |
proximal | proximal | edö,Y e'döD | mö'dö | — | eetö | eese | eesemjo | sadö | ||
medial | mödöY | mööyö,Y möñöD | kanno | — | möötö | — | — | — | — | |
distal | medial | möönü,Y mönöD | mökkü, mö'kü | makkamo, ma'kamo | inña | möntö | mönse | aneeseja | mönsemjo | maadö |
invisible | distal | iyö,Y iiyöD | ñöödö,Y ñö'döD | ñanno,Y nñannoD | — | yöötö | unwaa | — | — | — |
Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. |
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
- 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, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275