ooi

Etymology

From Dutch ooi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ooi (plural ooie)

1. ewe

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ooi, ou, from Old Dutch *ōi, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Compare German Aue, West Frisian ei, English ewe. Unrelated to ooibos (“riparian forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːi̯/

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• Hyphenation: ooi
• Rhymes: -oːi̯

Noun

ooi f (plural ooien, diminutive ooitje n)

1. ewe
   • 1988, Het Boek, International Bible Society, Genesis 31:38:

     Twintig jaar ben ik bij u geweest en al die tijd heb ik goed voor uw ooien en geiten gezorgd, zodat zij gezonde jongen ter wereld brachten. Nooit heb ik ook maar één ram aangeraakt om ervan te eten.

     I have been with you for twenty years and all the time I took good care of your ewes and goats; so that they brought healthy offspring into the world. I never touched merely a single ram to eat one of them.

Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto oi and Nüpode Huitoto oi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔːi]
• Hyphenation: oo‧i

Root

ooi

1. brother-in-law

Noun

ooi

1. vocative of oima

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 203
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 470