öömajo

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	öömajo
Brazilian standard	äämajo
New Tribes	äämajo

Etymology

From ööma (“to die”) +‎ -jo (causative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːmaho]

Verb

öömajo

1. (intransitive, agentive) to get oneself killed

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “öömajo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon