sadö

See also: sado, Sado, and sadō

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	sadö
Brazilian standard	sadä
New Tribes	sadä

Etymology

The second element -dö seems to be the same as that in maadö (“around there”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saɾ̠ə]

Adverb

sadö

1. around here, over here

Usage notes

Sadö and maadö are the only two deictic adverbs to which the goal suffix -dö can be suffixed, resulting in sadödö and maadödö.

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) “sadö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, pages 260–263