a canal (man-made waterway) · a channel (used in the names of some natural, relatively narrow waterways, for example "Engelska kanalen" (the English Channel)) · a channel (for transmitting information, in technical and other senses)
riverbed, channel, streambed · normal state of affairs (used primarily in the expression asettua uomiinsa (“to settle down into normal state”))
çekim: çoğul uomat · tamlayan uoman
köken: vuo + -ma; the loss of v- may represent an archaism, or it may, as Kallio (2007) suggests, instead be a sign that the word was borrowed from Sami (such as Early Proto-Samic *ōm̀ã, later *vuomē, compare Northern Sami vuopmi).
trough (long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals) · channel (the physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks)
çekim: çoğul koryta · tamlayan koryta
köken: Inherited from Old Czech koryto, from Proto-Slavic *koryto. Cognate with Upper Sorbian korto, Lower Sorbian kóryto, Polish koryto, Serbo-Croatian kòrito, Russian коры́то (korýto).