yöötö
See also: Yootó
Ye'kwana
editALIV | yöötö |
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Brazilian standard | yäätä |
New Tribes | yäätä |
Etymology
editFor the first element, compare the invisible inanimate demonstrative pronoun iyö. The second element -tö is common to a series of deictic adverbs all related to the inanimate demonstrative pronouns.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edityöötö
Inflection
editYe'kwana demonstratives
category | inanimate pronoun |
animate pronoun | deictic adverb | |||||||
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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
editReferences
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yöötö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 260–263