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See also: Appendix:Variations of "omo"
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Osum with o as a placeholder.
Symbol
omo
See also
English
Noun
omo (uncountable)
Esperanto
Etymology
Ultimately named after Bavarian physicist Georg Ohm, from German Ohm (“uncle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
omo (accusative singular omon, plural omoj, accusative plural omojn)
Synonyms
Franco-Provençal
Pronunciation
Verb
omo (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)
References
- omo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
Fula
Pronoun
omo
- (Pulaar, Fouta-toro, Massina, Liptaako, Benin, S.W. Niger, Sokoto) third person singular;long form he/she
Dialectal variants
- himo (Pular)
- ombo (Fouta-toro)
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
- Ritsuko Miyamoto (1993), “A Study of Fula Dialects : Examining the Continuous/Stative Constructions”, in Senri Ethnological Studies, volume 35, , pages 215-230
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Hausa
Etymology
From OMO, a brand of detergent sold by the company Unilever.
Pronunciation
Noun
ōmṑ m (possessed form ōmòn)
- detergent, soap powder
Hawaiian
Verb
omo
Istriot
Etymology
Noun
omo m
Italian
Alternative forms
- homo (obsolete spelling)
Pronunciation
Noun
omo m (plural omini) (regional or archaic)
- alternative form of uomo
- 13th century, “De lo caballo Constantino [Constantino the horse]” (chapter 32), in Le miracole de Roma [The marvels of Rome] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Ernesto Monaci, editor, Le miracole de Roma - Versione dei Mirabilia Romae in volgare romanesco del dugento [The marvels of Rome - Version of the Mirabilia Romae in 13th-century Roman vernacular], Rome: R[egia] società romana di storia patria, 1915, page 28:
- uno cavalieri […] se levao, lo quale dixe […]: Se forse alcuno homo ke be liberasse de questa tribulatione, quanto fora remunerato da voi? (Romanesco)
- [uno cavalieri […] se levò, lo quale disse […]: Se forse alcuno omo che ve liberasse de questa tribulazione, quanto fora remunerato da voi?]
- One cavalryman […] rose, saying […]: "If perhaps [there were] any man to free you from this trouble, how much would you reward him?"
- c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures], page 1; copied, (manuscript), c. mid 13th century:
- aꝺte ſolo altıſſımo ſe konfano ⁊ nullu homo ene dıgnu te mẽtouare. (Umbria)
- [A te solo, altissimo, se confanno, e nullu omo ene dignu te mentovare.]
- They [the praises] belong to you alone, o Most High; and no man is worthy of mentioning You.
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- "Miserere di me", gridai a lui, / "qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!". / Rispuosemi: "Non omo, omo già fui […] "
- "Have pity on me", I cried to him, "whatever you are, shadow or real man!" He answered me: "Not man, a man I was once […] "
- 1549, Rinaldo Corso, “Come s'usi il converso”, Primo partimento delle lettere [First part, the letters], in Fondamenti del parlar toscano [Fundamentals of the Tuscan language], Venice, page 17:
- Quando la uoce, che ſegue, commincia da uocale, […] ſempre gli articolo ſi ſcriue intiero, perche coſì richiede la Thoſcana pronuncia. Gli altari. Gli estremi. Gli homini. Gli uccelli.
- [Quando la voce che segue comincia da vocale, […] sempre gli articolo si scrive intiero, perché così richiede la toscana pronuncia: gli altari, gli estremi, gli omini, gli uccelli.]
- When the following word starts with a vowel, […] the article gli is always written in full, because it is required by the Tuscan pronunciation: gli altari [the altars], gli estremi [the extremes], gli omini [the men], gli uccelli [the birds].
- 1682, Ettore Secondino Albergante, “Errore settimo [Seventh error]”, Parte prima [First part], in Il disinganno [The disillusionment], page 175:
- Che altro è queſta Chieſa vniuerſale ſe non vna raccolta d’Omini congregati?
- [Che altro è questa chiesa universale, se non una raccolta d'omini congregati?]
- What is this universal church, if not a group of gathered men?
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Japanese
Romanization
omo
Lombard
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Old Lombard) IPA(key): [ˈɔmo]
Noun
omo m
Descendants
- Lombard: òmm
Nias
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀumaq, from Proto-Austronesian *ʀumaq.
Pronunciation
Noun
omo (mutated form nomo)
References
- Brown, Lea (2005) Nias. In Adelaar, Alexander & Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (eds.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, p. 567. Abingdon: Routledge. →ISBN
Rapa Nui
Verb
omo
Venetan
Etymology
Noun
omo m (plural omi)
West Makian
Pronunciation
Adverb
omo
Alternative forms
References
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