oima
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ojma]
Verb
oima
- (transitive) to mix
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “oima”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “oimahö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
From oi + -ma.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɔi̯.ma]
Noun
oima
- brother-in-law (husband of a sister; to a male)
- brother-in-law (brother of a wife)
- cousin-in-law (husband of a female cousin; to a male)
References
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia., Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis)