iyö

See also: iyo and IYO

Ye'kwana

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ijə]

Pronoun

iyö

  1. (Caura River dialect) The inanimate invisible demonstrative pronoun; that, those (that I can’t see).

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iyö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “i:yö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 283
  • 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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