FromProto-Cariban*ônɨrɨ(“to drink”). CompareApalaíeny,Kari'naenyry,Trióenïrï,Wayanaenïlï,Waiwaieerî,Akawaioensi,Macushienîrî,Pemonenü.
enü(transitive)
- todrink
- totake
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “enü”, inGrammaire 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, pages224, 393: “*künenüycho > *künenüytcho > künenüy'cho 'then[sic – meaningthey] 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, published2021