enyay

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish eñe.

Noun

enyay (plural enyays)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ñ/ñ.
   • 1988, Don Chapman, Alan K Melby, “MicroMATER”, in Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium‎^[1], volume 14, number 1, page 67:

     These accent letter codes and punctuation codes are represented by two characters. The first character (called a signal) more or less modifies the second character. For example, ˜n represents the Spanish enyay.

   • 1994 June 7, Jeff Kopmanis, “LSM: New Release: 05JUN94”, in comp.os.linux.development‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Please try to stay away from some of those special characters (umlauts, hachas, enyays, etc), because they are 8-bit and non-standard.

   • 2002 July 23, Silvan, “strange keyboard behavior”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I suppose it's intended to be used by people who are used to the US layout, but who want to be able to put a few types of accents onto a few vowels. There's upside down punctuation, no C cedille, no enyay. I don't _think_ so anyway. It may be that ~N produces an enyay, in which case it would be just as annoying to use in the Unix world as one of the other national layouts.

   • 2002, Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon, SQL: 1999, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 705:

     Of course, Unicode supports the enyay—ñ—as a single encoded character, but there are many examples of language elements in, say, Vietnamese, for which there are no single encoded characters in Unicode.

   • 2008 November, Ben Guerrero, “Rockers”, in Home‎^[4], Ridgefield: Hersam Acorn Newspapers, page 42:

     "No, no, no," I said, trilling my double r's and transforming all the n's with tildes into enyays, "I did not ask you what it cost, I asked you what it was worth."

Translations

name of the letter Ñ, ñ

• Basque: eñe
• Galician: eñe (gl)
• Portuguese: enhe (pt)
• Rohingya: añ
• Spanish: eñe (es)

Sundanese

Noun

enyay

1. sparkle