eny
- Pronunciation spelling ofany.
1862, Various,Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1.[1]:FREE--and that the schulehouses war a d--d sight thicker than the bugs in Miles Privett's beds! and thet's saying a heap, for efeny on you kin sleep in his house, excep' he takes to the soft side of the floor, I'm d--d.
1893, C. C. Goodwin,The Wedge of Gold[2]:Ther stranger pays fureny bow they make, for any smile they give.
1912, Al. G. Field,Watch Yourself Go By[3]:Why, he kin singeny song and do ent cut-up antikeny of 'em kin.
1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers,Toaster's Handbook[4]:"Does de white folks in youah neighborhood keepeny chickens, Br'er Rastus?"
- Obsolete spelling ofany.
FromProto-Cariban*ônɨ; compareApalaíseny,Carijonaenï,Triósenï,Wayanasin,Waiwaion,Macushiseni,Pemonsenü.
eny
- the inanimate singular invisible proximal demonstrative pronoun;this (that I can’t see), this (somewhere around here)
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008)A Carib grammar and dictionary[5], Toronto: Magoria Books,→ISBN, pages53–54, 263
- Meira, Sérgio (2002) “A first comparison of pronominal and demonstrative systems in the Cariban language family”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sergio Meira and Hein van der Voort, editors,Current Studies on South American Languages[6], Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and American Studies (CNWS), Leiden University,→ISBN, pages255–275
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “enï”, inEncyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page149; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl.,L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[7], Paris,1956, page147
- Yamada, Racquel-María (2010) “eny”, inSpeech community-based documentation, description, and revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume[8], University of Oregon, page731
eny
- yes
