ööma

See also: Ooma

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ööma
Brazilian standard	ääma
New Tribes	ääma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əːma]

Etymology 1

From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ema (“to kill”).

Verb

ööma

1. (intransitive, agentive) to die

Derived terms

• öömajo

Etymology 2

From Proto-Cariban *ôtema (“path”).

Noun

ööma (possessed öömadü or eemadü)

1. road, path
2. course taken; trajectory, path, orbit
3. course or path in a more abstract sense; progression, succession, course
4. one’s life trajectory in particular
5. flow or pattern of speech or other sound, such as birdsong
6. narration, thread of a story
7. conduit, tube, pipe, including musical instruments and vessels of the body

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ööma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ääma”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 289, 315
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-əma-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄ma”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths‎^[5], London: London School of Economics and Political Science