Feminine
Guiné
- (feminine, historical) Guinea (the coastal regions of Subsaharan West Africa)
- (feminine) Guinea (a country in West Africa)
- (feminine, informal) synonym of Guiné-Bissau
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɡiˈnɛ/
Etymology
Of uncertain origin; possibly from a Berber source like Tarifit aynaw (“mute”) (alternative form agnaw) i.e. “those who don't speak our language” (compare the similarly constructed Slavic term *němьcь (“foreigner”, literally “not-speak”), as in Polish Niemiec (“German”)). Or, possibly after the city of Djenné. More at Guinea (region) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
Related words
Guine
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