alnôbawôgan

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Abenaki

Etymology

alnôba ("human") + -wôgan ("being, constituting, becoming")

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alnɔ̃bawɔ̃ɡan/

Noun

alnôbawôgan

  1. "being human" : human nature
  2. "becoming human" : birth

Usage notes

Alnôba (quod vide) particularly connotes a human who is Abenaki or Native American.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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