ömi
Ye'kwana
editALIV | ömi |
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Brazilian standard | ämi |
New Tribes | ämi |
Alternative forms
edit- ömmi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Cariban *ômoi; compare Pará Arára amoe.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editömi (possessed ömichü or emichü)
- (Caura River dialect) fingernail, claw
References
edit- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ömi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “ömmi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “əmmi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021