ingena
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps from a language of Gabon.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ingena (plural ingenas)
- (obsolete) A gorilla.
- 1998, Silke Strickrodt, Those Wild Scenes: Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), page 97:
- Furthermore, Thomas Edward reports that the Ingenas carry 'their infant dead, closely pressed to them, until they drop away in putrefaction'.
References edit
- “ingena”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ Chris Herzfeld, The Great Apes: A Short History (2017), page 42: "Upon his return [from Gabon, which he visited after a mission to the Ashantee in Ghana], he [Bowdich] described several different species of primates, including the ingena, most likely a gorilla, which he differentiated from the inchego, or chimpanzee." Thomas S. Savage, Jeffries Wyman, Notice of the External Characters and Habits of Troglodytes (1847), page 419: "The "Ingena," referred to by Bowdich, in his mission to Ashantee, is probably the Engé-ena of the natives of the Gaboon, […] "