anu

>? Aukan: ana

money that is paid out to the participants of a kasmoni


man

A man no ben man taki.


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.


brada

Aukan: baala

Saramaccan: baaa

→ Dutch: brada


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.


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.


spari

Porcupine River stingray (Potamotrygon hystrix)


pingo

Borrowed from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pôinôkô; possible direct sources include Kari'na pyinko, poinko and Yao (South America) pingo.

wan lo pingo

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

white-lipped peccary
white-lipped peccary

Tayassu pecari
Tayassu pecari#Translingual


futu

Aukan: futu

Saramaccan: fútu


sisa

From English sister or from Dutch zuster.


ede

Aukan: ede

Saramaccan: hédi


noso

Aukan: nosu

Saramaccan: núsu


ondrobere

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


kwata

red-faced spider monkey (Ateles Paniscus)


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:


babun

Colombian red howler (Alouatta Seniculus)


sabaku

Egretta thula
Egretta thula#Translingual

Bubulcus ibis
Bubulcus ibis#Translingual

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


bonboni

Brazilian squirrel, Guianan squirrel (Sciurus aestuans)


bromki

Aukan: boomiki

→ Kari'na: poromiki

Borrowed from Dutch bloemetje, diminutive of bloem.


bereman

[bɪ̞ɾɪ̞ˈmã̠n]

[be̝ɾe̝ˈmɑ̟̃n]

From bere (“womb, belly”) + -man (person suffix).


bonkoro

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.


brudu

→ Aukan: buulu

→ Saramaccan: buúu

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-?
Proto-Germanic *blōþą
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old Dutch bluot
Middle Dutch bloet
Dutch bloedbor.
Sranan Tongo brudu
Borrowed from Dutch bloed (“blood”).


pakira

→ Dutch: pakira


busititei

Compound of busi (“forest”) + titei (“rope”)


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”).

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

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.


mindrifinga

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


pikinfinga

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


fokofoko

Aukan: fuku fuku

Saramaccan: fuköfukö


krabu

→ Caribbean Hindustani: krabu

→ Caribbean Javanese: krabu

→ Saramaccan: kaábu


skapuloiri

Southern two-toed sloth (Choloepus Didactylus)


mirafroiti

Borrowing or calque from Dutch miereneter.

southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla)


kuriaku

grey brocket (Subulo gouazoubira, syn. Mazama gouazoubira), of South America.


tigrikati

Felis pardalis
Felis pardalis#Translingual


tamanwa

→ Dutch: tamanoa

Probably from Kari'na [Term?] and/or Lokono [Term?]. Compare French tamanoir (“anteater”), Old Tupi tamandûá (“anteater”).

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.’

Myrmecophaga tridactyla
Myrmecophaga tridactyla#Translingual

giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)

nl:Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek


kakumbe

Aukan: kakumbe


edekrabasi

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


mofobuba

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

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.


apteiki

Aukan: aputeiki


manyapiren

Compound of manya (“mango”) + piren (“piranha”).


powisi

→ Dutch: powisi

According to Van Donselaar, borrowed from Dutch pauwies, from Spanish pauxi, possibly of Amerindian origin. Alternatively, borrowed from Kari'na [Term?].