ömi

See also: omi, Omi, OMI, and ómi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ömi
Brazilian standard	ämi
New Tribes	ämi

Alternative forms

• ömmi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *ômoi; compare Pará Arára amoe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əmi]

Noun

ömi (possessed ömichü or emichü)

1. (Caura River dialect) fingernail, claw

References

• 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