yöötö

See also: Yootó

Maquiritari

Etymology

For 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

IPA^(key): [ɟəːtə]

Adverb

yöötö

there (at the place already mentioned)
then (at the time already mentioned)

Inflection

Maquiritari demonstratives

category		inanimate pronoun	animate pronoun		deictic adverb
Ye’kwana dialect	De’kwana dialect	inanimate pronoun	singular	plural	speaker	anaphoric	land	side	watercourse	approximate
proximal	proximal	edö,^Y e'dö^D	mö'dö	—	eetö		eese		eesemjo	sadö
medial	proximal	mödö^Y	mööyö,^Y möñö^D	kanno	—	möötö	—	—	—	—
distal	medial	möönü,^Y mönö^D	mökkü, mö'kü	makkamo, ma'kamo	inña	möntö	mönse	aneeseja	mönsemjo	maadö
invisible	distal	iyö,^Y iiyö^D	ñöödö,^Y ñö'dö^D	ñanno,^Y nñanno^D	—	yöötö	unwaa	—	—	—
Y. Ye’kwana dialect. D. De’kwana dialect.

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 260–263

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