gitara

Borrowed from Dutch gitaar or from English guitar.


stari

Aukan: sitali

From English star. Likely a late borrowing, as st- typically simplifies to t- in words of English origin (see tan, tori, tiki).


blaw

Aukan: baaw

Saramaccan: baáu


oli

Probably borrowed from Dutch olie (“oil”).


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"


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


mati

Aukan: mati

Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: mati

→ Dutch: mattie

→ Kari'na: mati

Borrowed from Dutch maat and/or English mate.

(slang, euphemistic) woman in a lesbian relationship


huru

to have sexual relations with more than one person


bosi

From English buss, of uncertain origin. Compare southern German Bussi which may or may not be related.


alen

From English rain. For the initial vowel, compare alata from English or Dutch rat and aleisi from Dutch rijs.

Blesi sa kon bogobogo, Masra pramis' m'anga yu, Lek'wan alen a sa wiki, Kraf' den di bribi fu tru, Sula fu seigi, wan dei sa was' kon na gron, now wan tu dropu de spiti, ma sibibusi sa kon

1999, Hillary de Bruin, “Liederen uit de praktijk van de duman [Songs from the Winti priest's practice]”, in OSO. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis, Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, →ISSN, page 152:

Blessing will come abundantly / the Lord promised to me and you / like a rainshower it will awaken / strengthen those who truly believe / With cataracts of blessing / one day the ground will be awash / now a few droplets are spitting / but torrential rains will come


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


alanya

Citrus aurantium
Citrus aurantium#Translingual

Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensis#Translingual


blaka

→ Caribbean Hindustani: blaaka


agida

Probably from Ewe adzidá (“drum”), Fon àgiɖá (“drumstick”).

(music) agida (a conical bass drum two to three metres long and 40-50 centimetres in diameter, the sound of which resonates in the ground and is used in the Afro-Surinamese Winti religion to communicate with snake gods; it is played with both hands, with the player using a drumstick in one hand)


poku

→ Dutch: pokoe


alenbo

From English rainbow, equivalent to alen + bo.


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

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃tóm?
Proto-Germanic *blōþą
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old Dutch bluot
Middle Dutch bloet
Dutch bloedbor.
Sranan Tongo brudu
Borrowed from Dutch bloed (“blood”).


mutyama

Probably from Kongo mukiama (“rainbow”). Cognate of Aukan muntyama.


weti

Aukan: weti

Saramaccan: wéti


ketre

→ Saramaccan: ketè


berpe

Aukan: belipe