English
iboga
Iboga comes from Myene iboga.
- Myenemoderniboga
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Myenemoderniboga
- Englishearliest quotation 1985same form
Earliest quotation: 1985, Richard Alan Miller, The Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs: “The powdered bark (especially the root bark) of the…”
Every English word from Myene iboga
Today it means
noun Tabernanthe iboga, a perennial rainforest shrub and a source of the hallucinogen ibogaine.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Myene iboga / iboga