ñöödö
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *inôrô, *nôrô (animate singular anaphoric third-person pronoun). Compare Trió nërë, Wayana inëlë, Waiwai noro, Galibi Carib inoro, njoro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɲəːɾ̠ə]
Pronoun
ñöödö
- (Ye'kwana dialect) The animate singular invisible demonstrative pronoun; that (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. | ||||||||||
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ñöödö”, 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