orenda

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

• IPA^(key): ɔˈɹɛn.də, oʊˈɹɛn.də
• Rhymes: -ɛndə

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"

• mana, wakan

• adreno-, radeon