Analyzable as /weel/ + /-ru/. From Proto-Fula-Serer *Beel, whence also Serer mbeel/peel (“lake”).[1]
weendu ndu (plural beeli ɗi)
- (Pular) lake, pond
- ^ Konstantin Pozdniakov (2022) Proto-Fula–Sereer: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes (Niger-Congo Compartative Studies), volume 3, Berlin, Germany: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 88