iiyö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV iiyö
Brazilian standard iiyä
New Tribes iiyä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *irô (anaphoric demonstrative pronoun). Compare Trió irë, Wayana ilë, Kari'na iro.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

iiyö

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) the inanimate distal demonstrative pronoun; that, those

Inflection

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 122, 440
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 283, 391:Inanimate distal Singular i:yö: [] i:yö - this one, it is
  • 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