Sranan

[sɾɑ̟ˈnɑ̟̃n]

Sranám-kondre da hási-tére: tide a wai so, tamara a wai so.

1855, Hendrik Charles Focke, Neger-Engelsch woordenboek [Negro English Dictionary], Leiden: P.H. van den Heuvell:

Suriname is like a horsetail: today it's blown this way, tomorrow it's blown that way.

Now di Sranan e meki en biri / ala tra biri kan tan tiri

c. 1955, Eddy Vervuurt (lyrics and music), “Lied [Parbo-Mambo]”performed by Orkest Eddy Vervuurt and Big Jones:

Now that Suriname is making its own beer / all other beers can keep quiet

gwe foe Afobaka, go na hé / dan te na sibiboesi krin joe kra / fas joe roetoe tap tafra-bergi lek wan boa / opo wan makti kankantri-sten / gi na njoen Sranan brokodé

1970 March 11, P. Marlee, “Lees: Sranan, moks'alesi”, in Vrije Stem: onafhankelijk weekblad voor Suriname, page 1:

away from Afobaka, go upwards / until a cloudburst cleanses your soul / fasten your roots on the table mount like a boa / raise a mighty cotton tree voice / for the dawn of the new Suriname

Mi luku a grontapu nanga en gudu / Nowan kondre mi feni pe mi sa tan / Mi kan teigi yu fu tru, mi gudu / Nowan kondre mi lobi leki mi Sranan

1975, Sonora Paramarera (lyrics and music), “Kondre Nomroe Wan”, in Lobi Dee:

I look at the world and its riches / I find no country where I'll live / I can truly tell you, my darling / I love no country like my Suriname

Atleba ten no sa de moro ini Sranan / Den bakra, den ben hori wi na baka / Den de bow den kondre kon na fesi / Meki wi e pina

1975, Mighty Botai (lyrics and music), “Sranang Kong Fri”, in Onafhankelijkheid (Srefidensi) Suriname:

The period of toiling will be no more in Suriname / The Dutch, they held us back / They built up their country successfully / Made us suffer

Opo mi pikin, opo. J'o tron wan Stari. Wan Stari d'e brenki ini a Firmamenti. En m'o gi joe wan kondre. Wan heri kondre nanga foeroe libisma. En a kondre disi sa nen A njoen Republiek Sranan!

1981, Thea Doelwijt, Prisiri stari. De pretster. Wan komedi-pré gi pikin. Een theaterspel voor kinderen [The star of joy. A theatre play for children], Paramaribo: Eldoradoboek, →ISBN, page 60:

Rise, my child, rise. You will become a star. A star that shines in the firmament. And I will give you a country. A whole country, with many people. And this country will be called: the new Republic of Suriname!


foto

From English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”). Originally, this word meant "fort" and specifically referred to Fort Zeelandia, but since Fort Zeelandia and Parimaribo are closely connected, the meaning was transferred to the later. Nowadays, it can refer to any town.

(archaic) Synonym of benfoto (“fort, fortress”)


foto

Aukan: foto

Saramaccan: fóto

na fotto dem no habi da muffe so menni; da Djutongo: ma nuffe plantasi habi hem.

1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary], archived from the original on 2023-02-08, s.v. bringi:

In the city, they don't have [use] this word so much; it's Saramaccan. But enough plantations have [use] it.

Ala pikinnengre / te we go na foto / unu mu luku den bon / nanga den strati tu

1960, Big Jones And His Kawina Band (lyrics and music), “Ala Pikin Nengre”, in Suriname:

All you kids / when we go into town / have a look at the trees / and the streets too

Ef mi ben sab pe joe grebi de, / mi gran afo, di krodong tjari / kon na Sranan, / so farawe fjoe eegi doti, / biten tédei, Manspasidei / psa hondro jari di keti koti, / mi ben sa saka libi foto, / mi ben sa pari mi eegi boto / f'kon saka kiendie na joe sei.

1974 June 29, Fred W. Omskirk Sr., “Manspasi”, in Vrije Stem: onafhankelijk weekblad voor Suriname, page 1:

If I knew where your grave was, my grand ancestor, whom forced labour / brought to Suriname / so far away from your own native soil, / early today, Emancipation Day / hundred years after the chains were broken, / I would have left the city, / I would have paddled my own boat / to come and kneel by your side.

(informal) Synonym of Paramaribo (the capital city of Suriname)


liba

Ei Selecta, mi granmama ben leri mi altèit, "no kosi kaiman fosi abra liba, boi".

2011, Selectabeats, Kayente (lyrics and music), “Djoegoe Djoegoe”:

Hey Selecta, my grandmother always taught me: "don't curse the caiman before crossing the river, boy"


Aga

→ Dutch: Agga

The Hague (a city, the administrative capital of the Netherlands)


Franskondre

[fɾã̠nsˈkʊ̞̃ndɾɪ̞]

[fɾɑ̟̃nsˈkɔ̝̃ndɾe̝]

France (a country in Western Europe and South America)


Damsko

→ Dutch: Damsko

Amsterdam (a city and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands; capital city of the Netherlands)


Gayana

[ɡɑ̟ˈjɑ̟nɑ̟]

From English Guyana, from an Amerindian language, probably Cariban or Lokono, said to be a word referring to the land's waters.


Blanda

[ˈblɑ̟̃ndɑ̟]

Kingdom of the Netherlands
Kingdom of the Netherlands#English

constituent countries
constituent country

Netherlands (The main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located primarily in Western Europe bordering Germany and Belgium)

Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe, consisting of four constituent countries: the Netherlands per se, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten)


Krvatkondre

[kɾva̠tˈkʊ̞̃ndɾɪ̞]

[kɾvɑ̟tˈkɔ̝̃ndɾe̝]

Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula#English

Southeast Europe
Southeast Europe#English

Croatia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


busi

Aukan: busi


Bakrakondre

[ba̠kɾa̠ˈkʊ̞̃ndɾɪ̞]

[bɑ̟kɾɑ̟ˈkɔ̝̃ndɾe̝]

Nanga da njoen smokoscipi voe bakrakondre mie de senie jou foe dem pikien bakra na Sint Nikolaas verjari die seksie Hondro nestie baskuto voe potie switie sanie na inie hesie mie sa senie moro.

1884 October 26, Algemeen Handelsblad (advertisement), Amsterdam, page 4:

With the new steamship to the Netherlands I'm sending you for the Dutch children, on Saint Nicholas's birthday, six hundred nests of baskets for putting sweets into[.] I'll send more soon.


Krowâsia

[kɾɔ̝ˈwɑ̟ːsiɑ̟]

Possibly coined by a Jehovah’s Witnesses translation team, ultimately from Medieval Latin Croātia.

coinage

Nanga moni di sma poti na ini a Kownukondre zaal fonsu, hondrohondro Kownukondre zaal ben bow na ini Bulgaria, Krowâsia, Masedonia, Moldafia, Rosiakondre, nanga Serfia nanga Montenegro.

2003 May, “Wrokoman fu difrenti kondre na grontapu e bow Kownukondre zaal na ini wan tu kondre fu Europa [Workers of different countries of the world are building Kingdom Halls in some European countries]”, in Wi Kownukondre diniwroko, Selters-Taunus: Wachtturm-Gesellschaft (Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), page 3:

With money that people put into the Kingdom Hall fund, hundreds of Kingdom Halls were built in Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Russia, and Serbia and Montenegro.

(rare, literary) Croatia (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe)


Bergi

From Dutch Belg, ultimately from Latin Belgae.

Oh ma fu sanede mi mu dede / gudu, ma fu sanede mi mu dede / San de na kondre mi no feni ete (sanede mi mu dede) / san de na Doisri mi no fanga ete (sanede mi mu dede) / san de na Swego mi no sabi ete (sanede mi mu dede) / san de na Bergi mi no kisi ete (sanede mi mu dede)

1974, Lieve Hugo (lyrics and music), “Na Foe Sang Edè”, in Lieve Hugo – King Of Kasèko:

Oh but why do I have to die / darling, but why do I have to die / What is in the country I haven't found yet (why do I have to die) / what is in Germany I didn't catch yet (why do I have to die) / what is in Sweden[?] I don't know yet (why do I have to die) / what is in Belgium I didn't get yet (why do I have to die)


Bergi

A settlement and former plantation in Brokopondo, Suriname


Franssei

[ˈfɾã̠nsːɪ̞i̯]

[ˈfɾɑ̟̃nsːe̝i̯]

Literally, “the French side”, compound of Frans (“French”) + sei (“side”). Compare Ingrissei (“Guyana”).

French Guiana
French Guiana#English:_Q3769

administrative region
administrative region

(informal) French Guiana (an overseas department and administrative region of France in South America)


Franskayana

[fɾɑ̟̃nskɑ̟ˈjɑ̟nɑ̟]

Compound of Frans (“French”) + Kayana (“Cayenne, Guiana”).


Kayana

[kɑ̟ˈjɑ̟nɑ̟]

From French Cayenne, either from French cayenne (“army barracks”), or, as a variant of Guiana, from an Amerindian language, probably Cariban or Lokono; in which case a doublet of Gayana.

Cayenne (the capital city of the French Guiana department)


Brasyon

[bɾa̠ˈʃʊ̞̃n]

[bɾɑ̟ˈʃɔ̝̃n]

Brazil (A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)


Argentinia

[ɑ̟ɾjẽ̝nˈtiniɑ̟]

Possibly coined by a Jehovah’s Witnesses translation team, from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river"); likely influenced by Dutch Argentinië.

Wan toe jari pasa kaba, den ben tapoe na wroko foe Jehovah Kotoigi ini Argentinia, en a no kisi toe jari pasa kaba den ben teki boen foeroe boekoe foe den tapoe na edekantoro foe den ini Buenos Aires en ooktoe 250 Nieuwe Wereldvertaling foe den Santa Boekoe ini Spanjoro tongo.

1980 May 1, “Na disiten bron foe na bijbel e misi hen marki [Modern-day bible burning is missing its mark]”, in A waktitoren, Selters-Taunus: Wachtturm-Gesellschaft (Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), page 5:

A few years ago already, they stopped the work of the Yehovah's Witnesses in Argentina, and not even two years ago, they took a good number of their books at their head office in Buenos Aires as well as 250 [copies] of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in Spanish.

(rare, literary) Argentina (a country in South America)


Ingrissei

[ĩˈŋɾisːɪ̞i̯]

[ĩˈŋɾisːe̝i̯]

Literally, “the English side”, compound of Ingris (“English”) + sei (“side”). Compare Franssei (“French Guiana”).

(informal) Guyana (a country in South America)


apteiki

Aukan: aputeiki


Sneisikondre

Compound of Sneisi (“Chinese”) + kondre (“country”).

[snɪ̞i̯siˈkʊ̞̃ndɾɪ̞]


Sneisikondre

Compound of Sneisi (“Chinese”) + kondre (“village”), so named because the village sprang up around a shop run by a Chinese immigrant.

[snɪ̞i̯siˈkʊ̞̃ndɾɪ̞]


Doisri

From Dutch Duitser. Compare Japanese ドイツ (Doitsu, “Germany”).


Pareisi

Paris (the capital and largest city of France)