oima

Murui Huitoto

oima
Root	Classifier
ooi-	-ma

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto oima and Nüpode Huitoto oima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔima]
• Hyphenation: o‧i‧ma

Noun

oima (vocative ooi)

1. brother-in-law (to a male)

Declension

Declension of oima

	singular	plural	kinship plural
absolutive	oima	ooiyaɨ	ooitɨaɨ
nominative	oimadɨ	ooiyaɨdɨ	ooitɨaɨdɨ
accusative	oimana	ooiyaɨna	ooitɨaɨna
dative/locative	oimamo	ooiyaɨmo	ooitɨaɨmo
ablative	oimamona	ooiyaɨmona	ooitɨaɨmona
instrumental	oimado	ooiyaɨdo	ooitɨaɨdo
causal	oimari	ooiyaɨri	ooitɨaɨri
privative	oimanino	ooiyaɨnino	ooitɨaɨnino

Declension of oima

	singular	plural	kinship plural
absolutive	oima	oimaɨaɨ	oimatɨaɨ
nominative	oimadɨ	oimaɨaɨdɨ	oimatɨaɨdɨ
accusative	oimana	oimaɨaɨna	oimatɨaɨna
dative/locative	oimamo	oimaɨaɨmo	oimatɨaɨmo
ablative	oimamona	oimaɨaɨmona	oimatɨaɨmona
instrumental	oimado	oimaɨaɨdo	oimatɨaɨdo
causal	oimari	oimaɨaɨri	oimatɨaɨri
privative	oimanino	oimaɨaɨnino	oimatɨaɨnino

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 215

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From oi (“complement, additional element for mixing”) +‎ -ma (verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ojma]

Verb

oima

1. (transitive) to mix

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “oima”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “oimahö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “-oima-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[4], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021