eni

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "eni"

Chichewa

Pronunciation

Noun

ení class 2

  1. plural of mwini

Edo

Etymology

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-

Pronunciation

Noun

ení

  1. elephant

Etulo

Noun

ēní

  1. water
    ḿ wēnî — I drink water
    ḿ wēnī — I drank water

References

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

Gagauz

Adjective

eni (comparative daha eni, superlative en eni)

  1. new

Antonyms

Derived terms

Pericú

Noun

eni

  1. water

References

  • 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”.

Pohnpeian

Noun

eni

  1. ghost

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly related to Albanian enjë (“yew”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eni m

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

  1. (botany) yew (Taxus baccata)

References

Turkish

Noun

eni

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

Urhobo

Etymology

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-

Pronunciation

Noun

eni

  1. elephant

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

eni

  1. Soft mutation of geni.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
geni eni ngeni unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yoruba

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

èní

  1. Lagos form of òní (“today”)
    Èní ni ọjọ́-ọjà
    Today is the market day.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Yoruba numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: ọ̀kan, ení
    Counting: oókan
    Adjectival: kan, méní
    Ordinal: kìíní, kìn-ín-ní
    Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀kan
    Distributive: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan
    Collective: ọ̀kọ̀ọ̀kan

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

Pronunciation

Numeral

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)
Derived terms

References

  • 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)
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