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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *inôrô, *nôrô (animate singular anaphoric demonstrative pronoun). Compare Trió nërë, Wayana inëlë, Waiwai noro, Kari'na inoro.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ñöödö
- (Caura River dialect) the animate singular invisible demonstrative pronoun; that (that I can’t see)
- (Cunucunuma River dialect) the animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun; that
Inflection
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ñöödö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ñö:dö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 305, 396
- 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