ööma
See also: Ooma
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From öt- (intransitivizer) + ema (“to kill”).
Verb edit
ööma
- (intransitive, agentive) to die
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Cariban *ôtema (“path”).
Noun edit
ööma (possessed öömadü or eemadü)
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ööma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in 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[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ma”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021