ööma

== Ye'kwana == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [əːma] === Etymology 1 === From öt- (intransitivizer) +‎ ema (“to kill”). ==== Verb ==== ööma (intransitive, agentive) to die ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From Proto-Cariban *ôtema (“path”). ==== Noun ==== ööma (possessed öömadü or eemadü) road, path course taken; trajectory, path, orbit course or path in a more abstract sense; progression, succession, course one’s life trajectory in particular flow or pattern of speech or other sound, such as birdsong narration, thread of a story 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