ööma

See also: Ooma

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əːma]

Etymology 1

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ema (“to kill”).

Verb

ööma

  1. (intransitive, agentive) to die
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Cariban *ôtema (“path”).

Noun

ööma (possessed öömadü or eemadü)

  1. road, path

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ööma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 289, 315
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-əma-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ma”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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