oima

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Murui Huitoto

oima
Root Classifier
ooi- -ma

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto oima and Nüpode Huitoto oima.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: o‧i‧ma

Noun

oima (vocative ooi)

  1. brother-in-law (to a male)

Declension

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 203
  • Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 215

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From oi (complement, additional element for mixing) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

Verb

oima

  1. (transitive) to mix

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “oima”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “oimahö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-oima-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021