Contionary:jenda

Ganymedian

Etymology

From English gender, derived from colonial-era English census measure forms. Compare enísi, boni and desisi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxenda]

Noun

jenda class II (plural jendasi)

1. (slightly formal) gender

   Synonyms: jero, insía

   Jenda ya badi manosi no macho o femina.

   Some people's genders are not male or female.

Usage notes

Although jenda is used to mean "gender", due to its origin in English it is generally stigmatised as a foreign loanword, which is then used by some queerphobes to allege that non-binary gender identities are bad because they are also foreign and not natively Ganymedian. Thus, most people in the LGBT community use more "native" sounding words instead, like jero from Spanish género or insía from Swahili jinsia (ultimately from Arabic جِنْسِيَّة (jinsiyya)). However, jenda is still used legally and academically in Ganymedian-language gender studies.

Derived terms

• a-jenda
• jendaflui
• tranjenda
• transjenda