sadö
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | sadö |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | sadä |
| New Tribes | sadä |
Etymology
[edit]The second element -dö seems to be the same as that in maadö (“around there”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sadö
Usage notes
[edit]Sadö and maadö are the only two deictic adverbs to which the goal suffix -dö can be suffixed, resulting in sadödö and maadödö.
Inflection
[edit]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
[edit]- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sadö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 260–263