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English

Etymology

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Noun

omena (uncountable)

  1. In Kenya, small fish dried and milled into flour.
    • 1986, Hunger Notes: A Newsletter of World Hunger Education Service:
      The women grow maize, beans, peas and sorghum, and are particularly happy with weaning foods taught by the Agricultural Extension staff because these foods are within their reach physically and economically: maize and bean flour, sorghum and pea flour, or flour from maize and omena (the omena fish is easily gotten from Lake Victoria).
    • 1988, Ruth K. Oniang'o, Feeding the Child, page 99:
      Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour. The flour should be prepared in amounts which should not be kept for longer than 2 weeks since it is likely to go bad. The dried omena can also be prepared into powder separately and this can be added in spoonfuls to the food during preparation.
    • 1986, Miriam S. Chaiken, Traditional Patterns and Modern Dilemmas: Designing Locally Appropriate Health Interventions:
      However local people recognize that the omena should preferably be eaten shortly after drying. They report that if the omena becomes too old the taste becomes bitter, so they tend to purchase omena only in the quantities which can be used up quickly.

Anagrams

Finnish

Omenia.

Etymology

Unknown. Often thought to derive from Proto-Finnic *omëna, but the only certain cognates with this form are Ingrian omena and Karelian omena.[1] Estonian õun and Livonian umārz are also often thought to be related, but the words cannot go back to a common protoform. A theory posits that the word is borrowed from an Indo-Iranian language (compare Yidgha [script needed] (åmuno), [script needed] (amun, apple)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈomenɑ/, [ˈo̞me̞nɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -omenɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): ome‧na

Noun

omena

  1. apple

Declension

Inflection of omena (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation)
nominative omena omenat
genitive omenan omenien
omenoiden
omenoitten
partitive omenaa omenia
omenoita
illative omenaan omeniin
omenoihin
singular plural
nominative omena omenat
accusative nom. omena omenat
gen. omenan
genitive omenan omenien
omenoiden
omenoitten
omenojen rare
omenain rare
partitive omenaa omenia
omenoita
omenoja rare
inessive omenassa omenoissa
omenissa
elative omenasta omenoista
omenista
illative omenaan omeniin
omenoihin
adessive omenalla omenoilla
omenilla
ablative omenalta omenoilta
omenilta
allative omenalle omenoille
omenille
essive omenana omenoina
omenina
translative omenaksi omenoiksi
omeniksi
abessive omenatta omenoitta
omenitta
instructive omenoin
omenin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of omena (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation)

Synonyms

Derived terms

compounds

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

Further reading

Anagrams

Ingrian

Omena (1).

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *omëna. Cognates include Finnish omena and Estonian õun.

Pronunciation

Noun

omena

  1. apple
    • 1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:
      Saaduus kasvoit kultaiset omenat.
      In the garden there grew golden apples.
      (Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)
  2. Short for maaomena (potato).

Usage notes

  • The more specific puuomena (literally tree apple) may be used for the sense "apple", in order to distinguish it from maaomena (literally earth apple).

Declension

Declension of omena (type 3/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative omena omenat
genitive omenan omeniin
partitive omenaa omenia
illative omenaa omenii
inessive omenaas omeniis
elative omenast omenist
allative omenalle omenille
adessive omenaal omeniil
ablative omenalt omenilt
translative omenaks omeniks
essive omenanna, omenaan omeninna, omeniin
exessive1) omenant omenint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Synonyms

  • (apple): ouna (rare)

Derived terms

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “омена”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 693
  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 363

Luo

a woman selling omena in Kisumu County

Noun

omena

  1. silver cyprinid, Lake Victoria sardine, mukene (Rastrineobola argentea);[1][2] found in Lake Victoria, tiny[2] and edible.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Awange, Joseph L. and Obiero Ong'ang'a (2006). Lake Victoria: Ecology, Resources, Environment, p. 33. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kokwaro, John O. and Timothy Johns (1998). Luo Biological Dictionary, p. 253. East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

omena n

  1. definite plural of omen

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