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