edö
See also: Appendix:Variations of "edo"
Ye'kwana
| ALIV | edö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | edä |
| New Tribes | edä |
Alternative forms
- e'dö (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *(tj)ôrô. Compare Trió serë, Wayana helë, Kari'na ero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [eɾ̠ə]
Pronoun
edö
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. | ||||||||||
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “edö”, 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 219, 283, 389: “[e'dë] 'this' […] Inanimate proximal Singular e:'dö […] e'dö - this one”
- 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