Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA game where players take turns removing wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to collapse. · Any activity that involves great precision with a risk of great failure.
Etymology tree Proto-Bantu [Term?] Swahili -jengabor. English Jenga Borrowed from Swahili -jenga (“to construct, to build”).
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- Borrowed-form mentionjengasw
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