aboma

Probably from Kongo m-bòma (“python”), from Proto-Bantu *-boma (“python”).

Any of various other large constrictors, aboma.


dia

Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’


flamingo

Borrowed from Dutch flamingo. (The bird that in English is known as flamingo is known instead as segansi.)

Eudocimus ruber
Eudocimus ruber#Translingual


aka

medium to large bird of prey; hawk, eagle, etc.


asi

>? Maroon Spirit Language: as, has

From English horse and possibly from Ewe asi (“wife (of a god); worshipper”), Fon asi (“wife (of a god); worshipper”). The sense "someone possessed by a spiritual entity" is possibly also a semantic loan from Twi Akan ɔpɔnkɔ (“horse; worshipper”). Compare Maroon Spirit Language as (“horse; spirit medium”), Haitian Creole chwal (“horse; someone possessed by a spirit”).


kanari

violaceous euphonia
violaceous euphonia#English


alata

From English rat or borrowed from Spanish rata, or less likely Dutch rat. For the initial vowel, compare alen from English rain and aleisi from Dutch rijs.


puspusi

Borrowed from Dutch poes, either a reduplicated borrowing or inspired by poes poes.


sarasara

[sɑ̟ɾɑ̟ˈsɑ̟ɾɑ̟]

Probably from Kongo nsala (“lobster, shrimp”), and possibly Awutu asasaw (“lobster”).


snekfisi

Compound of sneki (“snake”) + fisi (“fish”).


keskesi

Contraction of kesikesi, probably from Ewe kèse (“monkey”).

collective name for several species of smaller monkeys


opete

From Twi Akan ɔpɛtɛ (“vulture”). Compare Maroon Spirit Language opete.

Fri yu no kan skrifi na / ini den nangra fu den opete.

1961, Michaël Slory, ““Sarka – Gi Yomo Kenyata (Kenya)” [Bitter struggle – For Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)]”, in Sarka / Bittere strijd, Amsterdam: Pegasus:

Freedom cannot be written / in the clutches of vultures.


dagu

Aukan: dagu

Saramaccan: dágu


Anansi

[ɑ̟ˈnɑ̟̃nsi]

From anansi, from Akan ananse (“spider”), Twi Akan ananse (“spider”), Awutu ananse (“spider”), Abron ànãnzi (“spider”).

(mythology) Anansi (trickster spider in West African and Caribbean folklore)


sabaku

Egretta thula
Egretta thula#Translingual

Bubulcus ibis
Bubulcus ibis#Translingual

Any of several small white egrets (Egretta alba, Egretta thula, Bubulcus ibis)


doksi

→ Dutch: doks


batyaw

→ Dutch: batjaw

[bɑ̟ˈt͡ʃɑ̟u̯]

Borrowed from Dutch bakkeljauw, from Portuguese bacalhau.


buriki

Aukan: buliki

Saramaccan: bulíki


anansi

[ɑ̟ˈnɑ̟̃nsi]

From Akan ananse (“spider”), Twi Akan ananse (“spider”), Awutu ananse (“spider”), Abron ànãnzi (“spider”).


fowru

From English fowl or less likely borrowed from Dutch vogel.


asaw

From Kongo nzau, from Proto-Bantu *njògù.


bokoboko

[bʊ̞kʊ̞ˈbʊ̞kʊ̞]

[bɔ̝kɔ̝ˈbɔ̝kɔ̝]


sekrepatu

Borrowed from Dutch schildpad (“tortoise, turtle”).


moismoisi

Reduplicated borrowing from Dutch muis. Compare Jamaican Creole musmus.


kapelka

From Dutch kapel (now dialectal or archaic) with an ending -ka of unknown origin and function.


krape

Likely of Amerindian origin, compare Old Tupi karambé. Cognate of Dutch krapé.

Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas#Translingual


waswasi

Reduplicated, from English wasp. Schumann and Focke still have forms corresponding to wasiwasi. Compare Aukan wasiwasi, Saramaccan wasiwási.


segansi

From se + gansi, calque of Dutch zeegans.


kapasi

→ Dutch: kapasie


krakun

→ Aukan: kaakun

→ Caribbean Hindustani: krákun

→ Kari'na: karakuna


daguloso

Compound of dagu (“dog”) + loso (“louse”).


uduloso

Compound of udu (“wood”) + loso (“louse”).


fayaworon

Compound of faya (“fire”) + woron (“worm”).


daguwesneki

Compound of daguwe (“boa constrictor”) + sneki (“snake”).


krabu

→ Caribbean Hindustani: krabu

→ Caribbean Javanese: krabu

→ Saramaccan: kaábu


krabu

Borrowed from Dutch krabben (“to scratch”).


kruktutere

Aukan: kukutu tee

Compound of kruktu (“crooked”) + tere (“tail”). Saramaccan kúkútúlábu is likely a calque of this term.


lusumbe

From Dutch duizendbeen (now archaic, displaced by duizendpoot), cognate with Papiamentu lisimbein. For the l > d change, compare didon.

centipede (animal of the class Chilopoda)