eesemjo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	eesemjo
Brazilian standard	eesemjo
New Tribes	eesemjo

Etymology

From eese (“here”) +‎ -mjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːsemm̥o]

Adverb

eesemjo

1. here (on this shore, on this side of a watercourse)

Inflection

Ye'kwana demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Caura River dialect	Cunucunuma River dialect		singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,Y e'döD	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial		mödö	mööyö,Y möödhö,D mööñöV	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü	mökkü	makkamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,Y iiyöD	ñöödö	ñanno	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—
Y. Caura River dialect. D. Cunucunuma River dialect. V. Alto Ventuari River dialect.

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “eesemjo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 260–263, 438