omo
See also: Appendix:Variations of "omo"
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm, from German Ohm (“uncle”).
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Noun edit
omo (accusative singular omon, plural omoj, accusative plural omojn)
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Fula edit
Pronoun edit
omo
- (Pulaar, Fouta-toro, Massina, Liptaako, Benin, S.W. Niger, Sokoto) third person singular;long form he/she
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References edit
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993) “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies[1], volume 35, , pages 215-230
Hausa edit
Etymology edit
From OMO, a brand of detergent sold by the company Unilever.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ōmṑ m (possessed form ōmòn)
- detergent, soap powder
Hawaiian edit
Verb edit
omo
Istriot edit
Etymology edit
From Latin homō. Compare Venetian omo, Italian uomo.
Noun edit
omo m
Italian edit
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Noun edit
omo m (plural omini) (regional)
- (archaic) Alternative form of uomo
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, p. 11, vv. 64-66:
- «Miserere di me», gridai a lui, ¶ «qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!». ¶ Rispuosemi: «Non omo, omo già fui, [...]»
- «Have pity on me», unto him I cried, ¶ «whiche'er thou art, or shade or real man!». ¶ He answered me: «Not man; man once I was, [...]»
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
omo
Nias edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀumaq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
omo (mutated form nomo)
References edit
- Brown, Lea (2005) Nias. In Adelaar, Alexander & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, p. 567. Abingdon: Routledge. →ISBN
Rapa Nui edit
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omo
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin homō. Compare Italian uomo.
Noun edit
omo m (plural omi)
West Makian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
omo
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References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics