eni

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ní/

ení class 2

1. plural of mwini

Cognate with Urhobo eni, Yoruba erin, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *E-ni. See Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ for more detailed information on cognates. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-

• IPA^(key): /è.nĩ́/

ení

1. elephant

ēní

1. water

   ḿ wēnî — I drink water

   ḿ wēnī — I drank water

• Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Fundamentals of Phonetics, Phonology and Tonology (2008)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish یكی (yeñi), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yaŋï. Compare Turkish yeni.

• IPA^(key): /eˈni/

eni (comparative daha eni, superlative en eni)

1. new

• eski

• enilik

Either borrowed from Urhobo eni or a native word that is a cognate with Urhobo eni, Edo ení, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin, and Yoruba ẹrin in many cognate languages, this form was replaced by a form seen in Nupe dagba, Idoma adagba, Igala adagba. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ or Proto-Yoruboid *é-nĩ. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-, and also suggests that it probably is of the same root as the root for four, thereby being a distant Doublet of erin (elephant) and Doublet of ẹrẹn (four).

• IPA^(key): /ē.nĩ̄/

eni

1. elephant

   Synonyms: erin, iyẹmẹriko, yẹmẹriko

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu (“ghost, spirit of the dead”)

eni (indefinite enihmen)

1. demon, ghost

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

eni

1. water

• Rosa Elba Rodríguez Tomp, Cautivos de dios: los cazadores-recolectores de Baja California (2002): Palabras utilizadas por los indigenas de la isla Espiritu Santo, consignadas por Esteban Carbonel en 1632: Ipiri: cuchillo. Unoa: "daca aquello". Boox : perla. Nacui: concha. Itaurigui: capitán. Vocabulos de los indigenas de las islas de San José y Espiritu Santo registrados per Diego de Parra en 1683: Eni: agua. Boxo : perla. Aynu: pescado.
• Atlas cultural de México: Lingüística (1988), page 31: El vocabulario pericú que ha logrado compilar León-Portilla es: ipiri “cuchillo”, booxo “perla”, nacui “concha”, eni “agua”, aynu “pescado”, miñicari “cielo”, uriuri “andar”, utere “sentarse”, unoa “dar”, itauriqui “jefe, capitán”.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, from Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu (“ghost, spirit of the dead”)

eni

1. ghost

• enis, eniu

Possibly related to Albanian enjë (“yew”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeni/

eni m

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

1. (botany) yew (Taxus baccata)

• “eni” in Ditzionàriu in línia de sa limba e de sa cultura sarda (2016). Searchable in multiple languages at ditzionariu.sardegnacultura.it

eni

1. accusative singular of en
2. third-person singular possessive of en

Cognate with Edo eni, Yoruba erin, Igbo enyi, Igala éli, Olukumi erin. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *E-ni. See Proto-Yoruboid *é-lĩ for more detailed information on cognates. See Benue-Congo cognates, Ibibio eniin, Tee ni, Proto-Lower Cross River *é-nì:n, Proto-Ogoni *ǹnĩ, Westerman constructs a possible reconstruction to Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-ni-

• IPA^(key): /ē.nī/

eni

1. elephant

• eniame (“hippo”)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈeːni/, /ˈɛni/

eni

1. Soft mutation of geni.

• èènì

• IPA^(key): /è.nĩ̀/

ènì

1. bonus after a purchase

   Synonym: járá

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎, number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Òní lẹ̀gbọ́n ọ̀la, ìrì wọ̀wọ̀ọ́ ṣẹ̀gbọ́n òjò; ibi ènì l'à á pa ọmọ-alákàràá sí.

     Today is the older sibling to tomorrow, just as heavy dews are the older siblings to the rain; the child seller of fried bean cake gets killed on the issue of a bonus (proverb on degrees and consequences))

• elénì (“the one that involves a bonus after a purchase”)

• IPA^(key): /è.nĩ́/

èní

1. Lagos form of òní (“today”)

   Èní ni ọjọ́-ọjà

   Today is the market day.

• lénìí

Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *ínḭ́. Likely cognates with Igala ényẹ́ and Ifè ɛnɛ́.

• IPA^(key): /ē.nĩ́/

ení

1. one

   Synonym: ọ̀kan

   Ení, èjì, ẹ̀ta, ẹ̀rin, àrún…

   one, two, three, four, five…

   • 2008 December 19, Yiwola Awoyale, quoting C. L. Adeoye, Àṣà àti Ìṣe Yoruba Ibadan‎, number LDC2008L03, 1979, page 56, Oxford University Press, quoted in Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN:

     Ení bí ení; èjì bí èjì; ẹ̀ta ǹ tagbá; ẹ̀rin wọ̀rọ̀kọ́; àrún ń gódó; ẹ̀fà ti èlè; bí ó ròó, bí ó ròó, èróo bàtá; mo já kẹ́sàn-án; gbangba lẹ̀wá

     One is like one; two is like two; three is like shooting at a calabash; four is like the twisted; five is like pounding a mortar; six is that of ability; as if it will sound a sound as if it will sound a sound; I plucked the ninth; ten is right in the open (lyric for teaching enumeration)

• kìíní
• méní

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎, number LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN
• Salem Ǒchála È̩jè̩bá (2016) A Grammar of Ígálâ, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria: The Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN), →ISBN
• SIL International (2016) Dictionnaire Ifè‎ (in French)