"eniyan" meaning in Yoruba

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "alv-yrd-pro",
        "3": "*Vnḭ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Yoruboid *Vnḭ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "eni",
        "3": "ì-",
        "4": "yàn",
        "lit": "Chosen beings",
        "t1": "being, person",
        "t2": "nominalizing prefix",
        "t3": "to choose"
      },
      "expansion": "eni (“being, person”) + ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + yàn (“to choose”), literally “Chosen beings”",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *Vnḭ. A folk etymology states it comes from eni (“being, person”) + ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + yàn (“to choose”), literally “Chosen beings”, in comparison to earlier pre-human earthly beings called eníyán, translated as \"the one's who were expelled.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ènìyàn",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": "ènìyàn",
        "head2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "2": "ènìyàn",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "yo-pos"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ènìyàn"
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "yo-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "homo sapiens",
          "word": "ẹ̀dá-ènìyàn"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "person, people, human being"
      ],
      "id": "en-eniyan-yo-noun-LzHubUMc",
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "human being",
          "human being"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "èèyàn"
        },
        {
          "roman": "Ijebu, Ìdàáṣà",
          "word": "ọ̀nìyàn"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Ekiti"
          ],
          "word": "ọ̀nị̀yọ̀n"
        },
        {
          "word": "عِنِيَن"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "ènìà"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/è.nĩ̀.jã̀/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eniyan"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "homo sapiens",
      "word": "ẹ̀dá-ènìyàn"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "alv-yrd-pro",
        "3": "*Vnḭ"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Yoruboid *Vnḭ",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "eni",
        "3": "ì-",
        "4": "yàn",
        "lit": "Chosen beings",
        "t1": "being, person",
        "t2": "nominalizing prefix",
        "t3": "to choose"
      },
      "expansion": "eni (“being, person”) + ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + yàn (“to choose”), literally “Chosen beings”",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *Vnḭ. A folk etymology states it comes from eni (“being, person”) + ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) + yàn (“to choose”), literally “Chosen beings”, in comparison to earlier pre-human earthly beings called eníyán, translated as \"the one's who were expelled.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ènìyàn",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yo",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": "ènìyàn",
        "head2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "noun",
        "2": "ènìyàn",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "yo-pos"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ènìyàn"
      },
      "expansion": "ènìyàn",
      "name": "yo-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yoruba",
  "lang_code": "yo",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Yoruba entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yoruba lemmas",
        "Yoruba nouns",
        "Yoruba terms derived from Proto-Yoruboid",
        "Yoruba terms inherited from Proto-Yoruboid",
        "Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "person, people, human being"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ],
        [
          "human being",
          "human being"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/è.nĩ̀.jã̀/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "èèyàn"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Ijebu, Ìdàáṣà",
      "word": "ọ̀nìyàn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Ekiti"
      ],
      "word": "ọ̀nị̀yọ̀n"
    },
    {
      "word": "عِنِيَن"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "ènìà"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eniyan"
}