-омъ

Solombala English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Likely from Germanic infinitive suffix *-aną (< PIE: *-onom) than Slavic instrumental *-omъ. Changing from /n/ to /m/ in pidgin spellings seems a dissimilation. Cognate with Russenorsk -om, -um.

Suffix

-омъ (-om)

1. An ending added to almost every verb in any verb tense.

   ‎English buy + ‎-омъ (-om) → ‎баёмъ (bajom, “to buy”)

   ‎English drink + ‎-омъ (-om) → ‎дринкомъ (drinkom, “to drink”)

   ‎Russian смотрѣ́ть (smotrě́tʹ, “to look”) + ‎-омъ (-om) → ‎смотромъ (smotrom, “to look”)

   (conditionally) ‎English come + ‎-омъ (-om) → ‎комъ (kom, “to come”)

Derived terms

Solombala English terms suffixed with -омъ

баёмъ

дринкомъ

смотромъ

References

• Laakso, Johanna (2001), “Reflections on the verb suffix -om in Russenorsk and some preliminary remarks on “docking” in language contact”, in Sándor Maticsák, Gábor Zaicz, Tuomo Lahdelma, editors, Ünnepi könyv Keresztes László tiszteletére (Folia Uralica Debreceniensia; 8), Debrecen, Jyväskylä, pages 315–324
• Broch, Ingvild (1996), “Solombala-English in Archangel”, in Jahr, Ernst Håkon, Broch, Ingvild, editors, Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs (TiLSM); 88)‎^[1], reprint edition, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, page 94 of 93–98
• Perekhvalskaya, Elena V. (2014), Русские пиджины [Russian pidgins]‎^[2] (in Russian), Moscow: Direct-Media, →ISBN, page 218