ẹrin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "erin"

Yoruba

Etymology 1

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Cardinal: ẹ̀rin     Counting: ẹẹ́rin     Adjectival: mẹ́rin     Ordinal: kẹrin     Adverbial: ẹ̀ẹ̀mẹrin     Distributive: mẹ́rin mẹ́rin     Collective: mẹ́rẹ̀ẹ̀rin     Fractional: ìdarin

From Proto-Yoruboid *ɛ̀-lɪ̃, see there for other Niger-Congo cognates. Within Yoruboid, cognate with Ifè mɛ́ɛrɛ̃, Igala ẹ̀lẹ̀, Itsekiri mẹ́ẹrẹn, and Olukumi mẹ́rẹ̀n.

Proposed to be a distant doublet of erin, as they both are believed to be from the same root as Proto-Volta-Congo *-ni from earlier Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-nani.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̀.ɾĩ̄/

Numeral

ẹ̀rin

1. four

Alternative forms

• ẹ̀rịn (Ekiti)

Derived terms

• bẹ́rin (“to give birth to quadruplets”)
• dẹ̀rin (“to become four”)
• ẹẹ́rin (“four, counting/long form”)
• ẹgbẹ̀rin (“eight hundred”)
• ẹgbàarin (“eight thousand”)
• ẹlẹ́rin (“owner of four”)
• (very rare) ẹ̀rẹ̀ẹ̀rin (“all four”)
• jẹ̀rin (“win a game of ayo”)
• mẹ́rin (“four, adjectival form”)
• ọgọ́rin (“eighty”)
• ṣẹ̀rin (“for two people's eyes to meet”)
• ìbẹ́rin (“quadruplets”)
• ìdarin (“fourth, fraction”)
• ìdunrín (“three years ago”)
• ìjẹrin (“three days ago”)
• ìjẹ̀rin (“style of ayo game”)
• ìkẹrin (“fourth”)
• ìlàrin (“fourth, used with liquids”)

 

Descendants

• Lucumí: erín

Etymology 2

From ẹ̀- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ rín (“to smile; to laugh”).

Alternative forms

• èrín (Ekiti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̀.ɾĩ́/

Noun

ẹ̀rín

1. smile; grin
2. laugh; giggling

Derived terms

• apanilẹ́rìn-ín (“comedian, comedic”)
• bú sẹ́rìn-ín (“to burst into laughter”)
• bú sẹ́rìn-ín kèékèé (“to burst into laughter”)
• ẹlẹ́rìn-ín (“one who laughs”)
• ẹ̀rín kk (“lol, hahaha”)
• ẹ̀rín múṣẹ́ (“friendly smile”)
• ẹ̀rín àríntàkìtì (“laughter to the extent of falling down”)
• ẹ̀rín ìyàngì (“awkward smile, fake smile”)
• pa lẹ́rìn-ín (“to make laugh”)
• rẹ́rìn-ín (“to laugh; to smile”)
• rẹ́rìn-ín kèékèé (“to laugh”)

 

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̀.ɾĩ̀/

Noun

ẹ̀rìn

1. Name of a plant. Further details are uncertain.

References

• Awoyale, Yiwola (2008 December 19) Global Yoruba Lexical Database v. 1.0‎^[1], volume LDC2008L03, Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, →DOI, →ISBN