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enskin

enskin verb: to install as a leader of a group.

Verb

enskin (third-person singular simple present enskins, present participle enskinning, simple past and past participle enskinned)

  1. (transitive, Ghana) To install as a leader of a group.
    • On being enskinned, the successful candidate was ceremonially informed that he was henceforth answerable to all the Wala and not only the Nabihi.2002, Ivor Wilks, Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 171
    • Although the Kpembewura does not elect or enskin the Kafabawura, as claimed by the Jitipe gate, he oversees both the nomination and enskinment or conferment of the title.2010, A. K. Awedoba, Edward Salifu Mahama, Sylvanus M. A. Kuuire, Felix Longi, An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace : Key Aspects of Past, Present, and...

Forms of enskin

third-person singular presentenskins
present participleenskinning
past participleenskinned
pastenskinned

Origin of enskin

From en- + skin.

Words formed from enskin

Questions about enskin

What does enskin mean?
Enskin means to install as a leader of a group.
What part of speech is enskin?
Enskin is a verb.
What is the past tense of enskin?
The past tense of enskin is enskinned.

Words near enskin in the dictionary

  1. ensite
  2. ensitrelvir
  3. ensituximab
  4. enskied
  5. enskies
  6. enskin
  7. enskinment
  8. enskinments
  9. enskinned
  10. enskinning
  11. enskins

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