ömödö
See also: ọmọdo
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) amödö
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *amë (“you”) + *rë (emphatic particle). Compare Trió ëmë, Wayana ëmë, Waiwai amoro, Hixkaryana omoro.
Pronoun
ömödö
- (De'kwana dialect) the second-person singular pronoun; you.
Inflection
Maquiritari personal pronouns
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| first person exclusive | üwü,D ewüY | nña | — |
| first person inclusive | — | küwü | künwanno |
| second person | ömödö,D amödöY | — | önwanno |
| third person | tüwü | — | tünwanno |
| Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect. | |||
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “əmədə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ewü”, in Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 120
- 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