[-omin-]

The -omin- affix in Boie'nen:

Function\

1. *Indicates completed action*: emphasizes past tense.\
2. *Focuses on the agent*: highlights the performer's role.

Examples\

1. *Bominaba’* (baba’ [down, below] + -omin-): went down; became short\
2. *Kominagat* (kagat [bite] + -omin-): bit\
3. *Dominakexe* (dakexe [big] + -omin-): grew up; became big\
4. *Dominorodakexe* (dakexe [big] + -omin- + oro [Lax Activity]): grew up a little; became a little big\
5. *Gominames* (games [mix] + -omin-): mixed (agent focus)\
6. *Mominata* (mata [eye] + -omin-): awoke\
7. *Nominatek* (natek [coconut milk] + -omin-): used coconut milk in cooking\
8. *Ngominirit* (ngirit [laugh] + -omin-): laughed\
9. *Ominexa’* (exa’ [sit] + -omin-): sat\
10. *Ominiyi’* (iyi’ [urine] + -omin-): urinated\
11. *Ominiba* (iba [tag along or accompany] + -omin-): accompanied\
12. *Ominoto* (oto’ [cook] + -omin-): cooked (past tense, agent focus)\
13. *Ominaxa* (axa [hot/pungent] + -omin-): became hot

Key Points\

1. *Agent focus*: -omin- infix emphasizes the performer's role.

AGT: Agentive (emphasizes the agent's role)
2.  PFV: Perfective (completed action)
3.  INCH: Inchoative (change of state or beginning of a process)
4.  ACT: Action (general code for actions)
2. *Past tense*: conveys completed action.
3. *Combination with roots*: -omin- can be used with various roots to form verbs in the past tense.

Affixation Rule
The -omin- affix is inserted after the first consonant of the root, if the root starts with a consonant (e.g., Kominagat, Dominakexe). For vowel-starting roots, the affixation rule involve direct prefixation or modification (e.g., Ominiba, Ominoto, Ominexa’).

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Category: Infix / actor-focus perfective

Function

Marks:

Actor-focus completed / perfective action

1. Can yield intransitive spontaneous reading with stative roots
2. Can yield transitive / causative-like reading with action roots

Focuses on the actor’s engagement or agency rather than the patient/result.

Examples 

m-omin-ara → mominara
dry-ACT.PFV → ‘dried up’ (spontaneous)

p-omin-na-mara → pominamara
dry-ACT.PFV → ‘dried (something)’ (caused)

Glossing Convention

• ACT.PFV = actor-focused perfective
• Interlinear: C‑omin‑stem → actor-completed action

Cross-References

[-in-] → patient/result completed

• [pina-] → patient/caused completed