omena

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omena (uncountable)

1. In Kenya, small fish dried and milled into flour.
   • 1986, Hunger Notes: A Newsletter of World Hunger Education Service:

     The women grow maize, beans, peas and sorghum, and are particularly happy with weaning foods taught by the Agricultural Extension staff because these foods are within their reach physically and economically: maize and bean flour, sorghum and pea flour, or flour from maize and omena (the omena fish is easily gotten from Lake Victoria).

   • 1988, Ruth K. Oniang'o, Feeding the Child, page 99:

     Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour. The flour should be prepared in amounts which should not be kept for longer than 2 weeks since it is likely to go bad. The dried omena can also be prepared into powder separately and this can be added in spoonfuls to the food during preparation.

   • 1986, Miriam S. Chaiken, Traditional Patterns and Modern Dilemmas: Designing Locally Appropriate Health Interventions:

     However local people recognize that the omena should preferably be eaten shortly after drying. They report that if the omena becomes too old the taste becomes bitter, so they tend to purchase omena only in the quantities which can be used up quickly.

• Aomen, Eamon, anemo-, noema

From Proto-Finnic *omëna (compare Estonian õun), perhaps a loan from an Indo-Iranian language into Proto-Finnic, compare Yidgha [script needed] (åmuno), [script needed] (amun, “apple”). Also possibly related to Livonian umārz and Erzya умарь (umaŕ) (if the latter is not related to marja only).

• IPA^(key): /ˈomenɑ/, [ˈo̞me̞nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -omenɑ
• Syllabification^(key): o‧me‧na

omena

1. apple

• äpyli (Finglish)
• omppu (colloquial, childish)

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• “omena”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• emona, menoa

From Proto-Finnic *omëna. Cognates include Finnish omena and Estonian õun.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈomenɑ/, [ˈo̞me̞n]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈomeːnɑ/, [ˈo̞mˑe̝ːnɑ]
• Rhymes: -omen, -omeːnɑ
• Hyphenation: o‧me‧na

omena

1. apple
   • 1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:

     Saaduus kasvoit kultaiset omenat.

     In the garden there grew golden apples.

     (Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)

2. Short for maaomena (“potato”).

• The more specific puuomena (literally “tree apple”) may be used for the sense "apple", in order to distinguish it from maaomena (literally “earth apple”).

• (apple): ouna (rare)

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 363

omena

1. silver cyprinid, Lake Victoria sardine, mukene (Rastrineobola argentea);[1][2] found in Lake Victoria, tiny[2] and edible.[1]

omena n

1. definite plural of omen

• amone, moaen, moane, nomena, omane, omena