PC oyaman, colored paint, vermillion; oyamanask, love medicine; NEC wiyiminichī, Paint Hills, place name; WI (Pessamit) ulaman [uləmən], na red-colored canoe resin; EI (Sheshatshiu) unaman [unəmən], na ochre; Fabvre (ca. 1690) "ȣramanǐhau, n. peinturer che n.;" Silvy (ca. 1680) "ȣraman, peinture"
ANISH Cuoq (1886) "onaman, fard, vermillon;" "onamanines,i, avoir une érysipèle;" MENO ona·mon, vermilion; MIAMI alamoni, red ocher, paint, vermillion (ILDA, 2017)
This root is inherited directly from Proto-Algonquian as a noun stem. However, the PA form may have ultimately been derived from a verb built on the root *weram. Consider the Naskapi word wiimin, "ochre," in comparison to wiimisiiu, "to be fat," built on an otherwise uncorroborated root that may point to PA *weram.