oomomü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV oomomü
Brazilian standard oomomö
New Tribes oomomö

Etymology

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ emomü (“to put in”). Cáceres, however, records the resulting verb as patientive, whereas an agentive verb would be expected to result from such a construction.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oːmomɨ]

Verb

oomomü (intransitive, patientive)

  1. to enter, to get in
  2. to sink (into the water)

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “emomü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 229: “[yomọmhë'a] 'I am entering'”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-omon-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
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