alnôbawôgan
Abenaki
FWOTD – 29 September 2012
Etymology
alnôba ("human") + -wôgan ("being, constituting, becoming")
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alnɔ̃bawɔ̃ɡan/
Noun
alnôbawôgan
- "being human" : human nature[1]
- "becoming human" : birth[1]
Usage notes
Alnôba (quod vide) particularly connotes a human who is Abenaki or Native American.
References
- Peter Paul Wzokhilain, explicated in The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast by Lisa Tanya Brooks (2008), chapter 1, pages 1–2