iiyö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	iiyö
Brazilian standard	iiyä
New Tribes	iiyä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *irô (anaphoric demonstrative pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Kari'na iro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iːjə]

Pronoun

iiyö

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) the inanimate distal demonstrative pronoun; that, those

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) “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 122, 440
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 391: “Inanimate distal Singular i:yö: […] i:yö - this one, it is”
• 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^[2], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275