ooi
Afrikaans
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
ooi (plural ooie)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ooi, ou, from Old Dutch *ōi, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Compare German Aue, West Frisian ei, English ewe. Unrelated to ooibos (“riparian forest”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oːi̯/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ooi
- Rhymes: -oːi̯
Noun
ooi f (plural ooien, diminutive ooitje n)
- ewe
- 1988, Het Boek, International Bible Society, Genesis 31:38:
- Twintig jaar ben ik bij u geweest en al die tijd heb ik goed voor uw ooien en geiten gezorgd, zodat zij gezonde jongen ter wereld brachten. Nooit heb ik ook maar één ram aangeraakt om ervan te eten.
- I have been with you for twenty years and all the time I took good care of your ewes and goats; so that they brought healthy offspring into the world. I never touched merely a single ram to eat one of them.
- 1988, Het Boek, International Bible Society, Genesis 31:38:
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ooi
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
Cognates include Minica Huitoto oi and Nüpode Huitoto oi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɔːi]
- Hyphenation: oo‧i
Root
ooi
Derived terms
Noun
ooi
- vocative of oima
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[1] (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.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 470