enü

See also: enu, -enu, enú, ënu, ēnu, and ẹnu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	enü
Brazilian standard	enö
New Tribes	enö

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

• IPA^(key): [enɨ]

Verb

enü (transitive)

1. to drink
2. to take

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], 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^{[sic – meaning they]} drink' […] künenüi'cho - they drink”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “w-emhan-nə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021