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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *ônɨrɨ (“to drink”). Compare Apalaí eny, Kari'na enyry, Trió enïrï, Wayana enïlï, Waiwai eerî, Akawaio ensi, Macushi enîrî, Pemon enü.
Pronunciation
Verb
enü (transitive)
- to drink
- to take
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 224, 393: “*künenüycho > *künenüytcho > künenüy'cho 'then drink' […] künenüi'cho - they drink”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-emhan-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021