ömmi
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See also: òmmi
Ye'kwana[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ömi (Caura River dialect)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Cariban *ômoi; compare Pará Arára amoe.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ömmi (possessed ömmichü or emmichü)
- (Cunucunuma 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