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yanacona

yanacona is the alternative form of yanakuna.

Meaning of yanakuna

Noun

yanakuna (plural yanakunas or yanakuna)

  1. (historical) An individual in the Inca Empire who left the ayllu system and worked full-time at a variety of tasks for the Inca, their queen, or the religious establishment.

Forms of yanacona

pluralyanaconas
pluralyanacona

Questions about yanacona

What is yanacona the alternative form of?
Yanacona is the alternative form of yanakuna.

Words near yanacona in the dictionary

  1. Yan'an
  2. yan-a-bumfit
  3. yan-a-dick
  4. yana
  5. Yanac
  6. yanacona
  7. yanaconas
  8. Yanakie
  9. yanakuna
  10. yanakunas
  11. Yanam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yanacona (page history and authors); yanakuna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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