eetö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	eetö
Brazilian standard	eetä
New Tribes	eetä

Etymology

For the first element, compare the proximal inanimate demonstrative pronoun edö. The second element -tö is common to a series of deictic adverbs all related to the inanimate demonstrative pronouns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eːtə]

Adverb

eetö

1. here (where the speaker is)

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.

Derived terms

• eetökkö

 

References

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