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Etymology
Derived from onu (“eye”). Perhaps cognate to Ye'kwana emjü (“to put a substance in the eyes”).
Pronunciation
Verb
enyky
- (transitive, East Suriname) to get something in the eye of, to hurt the eye of (someone) with a substance such as pepper juice
Derived terms
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 263
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “enu”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 150; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 148