mö'dö
Ye'kwana
edit| ALIV | mö'dö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | mä'dä |
| New Tribes | mä'dä |
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-rô (emphatic particle). Compare Trió mëërë, Wayana mëklë, Waiwai mïkro, Kari'na mòko. The first element is equivalent to the distal demonstrative mö'kü, mökkü.
Pronunciation
editPronoun
editmö'dö
- the animate singular proximal demonstrative pronoun; this
Inflection
editYe'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
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mö'dö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, page 122
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 283, 394: “mö'dö 'his' […] Animate proximal Singular mö'dö […] mö:'dö - this, this one here”
- 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