orenda

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mystical power thought by the Iroquois to pervade all things. uncountable
    — In the Handbook of American Indians, Alice Fletcher describes the Iroquois conception of orenda as "a fictive force, principle, or magic power"

词源

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