iyö

See also: iyo and IYO

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *irô (anaphoric third-person pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Galibi Carib iro.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ijə]

Pronoun

iyö

  1. (Ye'kwana dialect) The inanimate invisible demonstrative pronoun; that, those (that I can’t see).

Inflection
Maquiritari demonstratives
category inanimate
pronoun		 animate pronoun deictic adverb
Ye’kwana dialect De’kwana dialect singular plural speaker anaphoric land side watercourse approximate
proximal proximal edö,Y e'döD mö'dö — eetö eese eesemjo sadö
medial mödöY mööyö,Y möñöD kanno — möötö — — — —
distal medial möönü,Y mönöD mökkü, mö'kü makkamo, ma'kamo inña möntö mönse aneeseja mönsemjo maadö
invisible distal iyö,Y iiyöD ñöödö,Y ñö'döD ñanno,Y nñannoD — yöötö unwaa — — —
Y. Ye’kwana dialect.
D. De’kwana dialect.

Derived terms

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
  • 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, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University, →ISBN, pages 255–275
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