mö'dö

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See also: modo, mōdo, mōdō, mōdõ, mödo, and mödö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV mö'dö
Brazilian standard mä'dä
New Tribes mä'dä

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *môkɨ (animate singular distal demonstrative pronoun) + *-rô (emphatic particle). Compare Trió mëërë, Wayana mëklë, Waiwai mïkro, Kari'na mòko. The first element is equivalent to the distal demonstrative mö'kü, mökkü.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mö'dö

  1. the animate singular proximal demonstrative pronoun; this

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) “mö'dö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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 223, 283, 394: “mö'dö 'his' […] Animate proximal Singular mö'dö […] mö:'dö - this, this one here”
  • 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
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