orenda

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Etymology

Supposedly coined in 1902 by American ethnologist John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt using a Wyandot (Iroquoian) cognate to Mohawk orę́·naʔ (“inherent power”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

orenda (uncountable)

  1. A mystical power thought by the Iroquois to pervade all things.
    • 1920 George Willis Cooke - The Social Evolution of Religion
      In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"

See also

References

  1. ^ “orenda”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

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