mö'dö
See also: modo, mōdo, mōdō, mōdõ, mödo, and mödö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-rô (emphatic particle). Compare Trió mëërë, Wayana mëklë, Waiwai mïkro, Galibi Carib mòko. The first element is equivalent to the distal demonstrative mö'kü, mökkü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [məʔdə]
Pronoun
mö'dö
- The animate singular proximal demonstrative pronoun; this.
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. | ||||||||||
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “mö'dö”, 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