ömi

See also: omi, Omi, OMI, and ómi

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms
  • ömmi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ômoi; compare Pará Arára amoe.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [əmi]

Noun

ömi (possessed ömichü or emichü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) fingernail, claw

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ömi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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