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
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