Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.
From Akan (and Kromanti) ananse (“spider”).
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