mödö
See also: modo, mōdo, mōdō, mōdõ, mödo, and mö'dö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *môrô. Compare Trió mërë, Wayana mëlë, Waiwai moro, Galibi Carib moro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [məɾ̠ə]
Pronoun
mödö
- (Ye'kwana dialect) The inanimate medial demonstrative pronoun; this, these, that, those.
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), “mödö”, 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