List of Ainu Terms - O

O

• ohaw (オハゥ) - ohaw, Ainu-style stew
• okay (オカィ), oka (オカ) - to be (in a certain place), to exist (suppletive plural form of アン an)
• okkay (オッカィ) - a man, a male (also オッカヨ okkayo in some dialects)
• oman (オマン) - to go
• omap (オマㇷ゚) - to love (one's child, etc.), to cherish, to hold dear (cf. Japanese omow- < *omop- "to think (that), to consider, to feel; to recall, to recollect, to remember; to imagine, to think of, to think about; to worry (about), to care (about), to love")
• on (オン) - to ferment
• ona (オナ) - father (explicitly possessed form オナハ onaha)
• onkami (オンカミ) - worship/prayer/beseechment (cf. Japanese ogami, which has the same meanings)
• onne (オンネ) - to be old (of age); to grow old, to age
• ontaru (オンタル) - barrel (cf. Japanese taru "barrel")
• or (オㇿ) - the inside (of something)
  • or ta (オㇿタ) - on the inside (of something), in, within (usually contracted according to a regular morphophonological process to become オッタ otta)
• osoma (オソマ) - feces
• osor (オソㇿ) - buttocks, derrière
• ota (オタ) - sand; sandy plain, sandy place, beach
• otcike (オッチケ) - tray (cf. Japanese oshiki < *wosiki "tray")
• otop (オトㇷ゚) - hair (also エトㇷ゚ etop in some dialects)
• oyra (オィラ) - to forget