anu

>? Aukan: ana

From English hand. Compare Maroon Spirit Language anu, Jamaican Creole an, Krio an.

money that is paid out to the participants of a kasmoni


bere

Aukan: bee

Saramaccan: bë́ë


bana

Possibly from Anyi bana or from English banana or Portuguese banana, both possibly from Wolof banaana (“banana”). Cognate of Aukan baana.


mofo

Aukan: mofu

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.

Mi wan tákki wan mófo nánga joe

1855, Hendrik Charles Focke, Neger-Engelsch woordenboek [Negro English Dictionary], Leiden: P.H. van den Heuvell, page 83:


iri

Probably a borrowing from Dutch hiel. The other creole languages have terms corresponding to bakafutu.


blaw

Aukan: baaw

Saramaccan: baáu


barba

Aukan: baiba

Wan dei Anansi ben koiri ini a busi. Dan di ai koiri a si wan sani di noiti a ben si bifo: wan ston di abi barba.

2002, SIL, “Anansi nanga a ston san abi barba”, in Languages of Suriname, Sranan Tongo Library:


biri

Aukan: bii

Saramaccan: bíi

→ Kari'na: biri

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


neki

Aukan: neki


yesi

A bom sutu so tranga taki a broko mi yesimama. Furu yari langa mi no ben man yere bun, ma te fu kaba mi yesi kon betre baka.

2007, “Yehovah kibri wi libi na a ten fu den ogri-ati tirimakti”, in Jehovah's Witnesses:

The bomb exploded so loudly that it broke my eardrums. For many years I couldn't hear well, but in the end my ears healed again.


futu

Aukan: futu

Saramaccan: fútu


switismeri

From switi (tasty, pleasant) + smeri (smell).


bonuman

[bɔ̝nuˈmɑ̟ŋ]


grun

Borrowed from Dutch groen, from Middle Dutch groene, from Old Dutch *gruoni, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.


grun

Aukan: guun

Saramaccan: guúun


wiwiri

From earlier wirri-wirri, probably from an African language.


ka-olo

→ Dutch: kaolo


ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi


noso

Aukan: nosu

Saramaccan: núsu


ondrobere

Compound of ondro (“under”) + bere (“belly”).


buba

Aukan: buba

Saramaccan: búba

Compare Yoruba bùbá (“outer garment”), Baoule bui (“bark (skin)”), Kongo búuba (“outfit; small piece of cloth worn by a woman”), Mandinka bubá (“blouse”), Wolof buba (“garments”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Niger-Congo *-kwuba (“skin (bark, husk)”).

der

Pieri me na boeba, fo na ningre

1855 April 23, “De slavernij en hare gruwelen in Suriname [Slavery and its horrors in Suriname]”, in Algemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam, page 4:


alanya

Citrus aurantium
Citrus aurantium#Translingual

Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensis#Translingual


blaka

Aukan: baakaa

Saramaccan: baáka

→ Caribbean Hindustani: blaaka

From English black. Compare Maroon Spirit Language blaka, Jamaican Creole blak, Krio blak.


blaka

Aukan: baaka


bonkoro

[bʊ̞̃ˈŋkʊ̞ɾʊ̞]

[bɔ̝̃ˈŋkɔ̝ɾɔ̝]

A black person with a (relatively) light skin.


nangra

Aukan: nangaa

Borrowed from Dutch nagel. For the unexpected nasal consonant, compare nyun, mangri, onfu, mindri, kwinsi.

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.


grebi

Aukan: geebi

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.

Den gorogoro de leki wan opo grebi, èn den tongo e taki soso lei. Den mofobuba e kiri yu leki te wan takru sneki beti yu.

2002, Nyun, Suriname: Wycliffe Bible Translators, Roma [Romans] 3:13:

Their throat is like an open grave, and their tongues speak only lies. Their lips kill you like when an evil snake bites you.


brudu

→ Aukan: buulu

→ Saramaccan: buúu


bonyo

Saramaccan: bónu

From English bone. The ending -yo may have been added to avoid confusion with bon (“tree”)


yesimama

Compound of yesi (“ear”) + mama (“mother”).

com+

Mi no ben kan tan arki den betiyesi tori fu Basedi, bika na bigisma no ben lobi te pikinnengre mofo e warsi na ini en tori efu den bradi den yesimama e arki.

1975, Edgar Cairo, “Wan pisi fu libi [A piece of life]”, in Ursy M. Lichtveld, Jan Voorhoeve, editors, Creole drum. An Anthology of Creole Literature in Surinam, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 256:

I couldn't stay to listen to the ear-catching stories of Master Edi, because the old man didn't like it when children's mouths wandered into his tale if they had stretched their eardrums and were listening in.

2007, “Yehovah kibri wi libi na a ten fu den ogri-ati tirimakti [Jehovah saved our lives in the time of the malicious regimes]”, in Jehovah's Witnesses:


bakabonyo

[ba̠ka̠ˈbʊ̞ɲʊ̞]

[bɑ̟kɑ̟ˈbɔ̝ɲɔ̝]

Compound of baka (“back”) + bonyo (“bone”).

Di mi gebore na ini 1956, mi ben abi wan siki na den senwetitei fu mi bakabonyo. Dati meki mi no ben man waka bun èn mi ben kisi tra siki tu.

2013, “Yehovah ’e tyari a lai fu mi ala dei’”, in Jehovah's Witnesses:

When I was born in 1956, I had an illness in the neural cord of my spine. Because of that, I couldn't walk properly and I got other illnesses too.


weti

Aukan: weti

Saramaccan: wéti


kownusturu

Compound of kownu (“king”) + sturu (“chair”).

Na ini a fisyun disi wi e si taki a kownusturu fu Yehovah de na tapusei fu den kerub-engel.

(Can we date this quote?), “„Mi kisi wan fisyun fu Gado””, in Jehovah's Witnesses:

In this vision we see that Jehovah's throne is above the cherubs.


mindrifinga

Compound of mindri (“middle”) + finga (“finger”).


pikinfinga

Compound of pikin (“small”) + finga (“finger”).


fokofoko

Aukan: fuku fuku

Saramaccan: fuköfukö


kakumbe

Aukan: kakumbe


edekrabasi

Compound of ede (“head”) + krabasi (“calabash”).


mofobuba

Compound of mofo (“mouth”) + buba (“skin”).


apteiki

Aukan: aputeiki


berpe

Aukan: belipe