ena

ena

1. definite nominative singular of enë

• en
• ene (Valencia)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.na]

ena f (plural enes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.

The e- is an obligatory dummy prefix taken by some nouns (namely, those in the e-class) in Cavineña.

ena

1. water
   • 2008, Antoine Guillaume, A Grammar of Cavineña, →ISBN:

     Roberto-ra e-na taru-ya.

     Roberto-ERG NPF-water stir-IMPFV

     Roberto is stirring the water.

• Antoine Guillaume, A Grammar of Cavineña (2008, →ISBN

ena (plural ekkana)

1. that

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [ɪnɑ́ˑ]
• Hyphenation: e‧na

ena

1. his/her body

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 27
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 134

ena

1. water

• José Alvarez Fernández, Vocabulario español-huarayo (2008), page 94

From en (“in, within, inside”) +‎ -a (adjectival ending).

• IPA^(key): /ˈena/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: e‧na

ena (accusative singular enan, plural enaj, accusative plural enajn)

1. interior, internal, inner

• ekstera

From Latin hebdomas. Compare Romansch emna.

ena f (plural enes)

1. week

• setemena

From French il y en a.

• IPA^(key): /ena/

ena (medial form ena)

1. to have
2. (impersonal) there is; there are

Compare Yoruba iná, uná and Igala úná.

• IPA^(key): /ē.nã̄/

ena (plural enazhì)

1. fire
2. light

Compare with Gbari ena (“goat”), perhaps related to Yoruba ẹran (“animal, meat”)

• IPA^(key): /ē.nã̄/

ena (plural enazhì)

1. mammal

Compare Yoruba ọnà.

• IPA^(key): /ē.nã̀/

enà (plural enàzhì)

1. artistic design; embroidery; engraving

ena

1. this

• enā (“this one”)

ena m

1. this

ena n

1. this

From Proto-Polynesian *e-na. Cognates include Tahitian enā and Maori ēnā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.na/
• Hyphenation: e‧na

ena

1. this, that (near the spoken to)

   Te vaka ena. ― That canoe (near you).

2. next, following

   Matahiti ena. ― Next year.

• Veronica Du Feu (1996) Rapanui (Descriptive Grammars), Routledge, →ISBN, page 145
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎^[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 194

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̀ːna/

êna

1. one

This is the usual form used when counting or reciting numbers.

From Old Swedish ena. Cognate with Danish ene, Norwegian Bokmål ene, Norwegian Nynorsk eine, eina, German einen. Equivalent to en (“one”) +‎ -a.

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ena

1. one; definite of en

   Jag måste välja den ena eller den andra.

   I must choose one or the other.

2. (dialectal) ones; plural form of en

   Ni var ena lustiga ena!

   You are some funny ones!

ena (present enar, preterite enade, supine enat, imperative ena)

1. to unite (bring about agreement among the members of a group)

   Han enade det splittrade landet

   He united the divided country

• See also enas, which is a separate deponent verb (though with a meaning very close to the expected one): "De enades" means "they came to an agreement" rather than "they were united (by some third party)."
• For uniting separate entities, see förena.

• enad
• enas
• enig
• förena

• ena in Svensk ordbok.

• IPA^(key): [ˈe.na]

ena (subject clitic i, possessive prefix ma, Jawi اين)

1. (for non-human groups) third-person plural pronoun, they

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh