mööyö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV mööyö
Brazilian standard määyä
New Tribes määyä

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mööyö

  1. (Caura River dialect) the animate singular medial demonstrative pronoun; this, that

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) “mööyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, page 122
  • 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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