Where does “oowanoma” come from?

oowanoma (Maquiritari) comes from Ye'kwana owanoma, from Ye'kwana -ma — Forms transitive verbs from nouns and adverbs, with no single clear meaning common to these derivations.

oowanoma (Maquiritari): to learn

Definitions

  1. to learn

Ancestry of “oowanoma”, step by step

oowanoma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ye'kwana owanoma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ye'kwanaowanomato teach
2Ye'kwana-maForms transitive verbs from nouns and adverbs, with no single clear meaning common to these derivations

via Proto-Turkic öt-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Turkicöt-to pass, go over

Words derived from “oowanoma”

Every word from Ye'kwana -ma →Every word from Ye'kwana owanoma →