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