iyö
See also: iyo and IYO
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *irô (anaphoric third-person pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Galibi Carib iro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ijə]
Pronoun
iyö
- (Ye'kwana dialect) The inanimate invisible demonstrative pronoun; that, those (that I can’t see).
Inflection
Maquiritari demonstratives
| category | inanimate pronoun | animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||||||||||
Derived terms
- yaawö
- yööjünka
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