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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "akubagengen"
},
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"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "naki wan gengen"
}
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"4": "",
"5": "ting-a-ling; ringing"
},
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"name": "der"
},
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"etymology_text": "Probably from Kongo ngéngéngéé (“ting-a-ling; ringing”), from Proto-Bantu *-gengede (“bell”).",
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},
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68,
72
]
],
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38,
48
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],
"english": "please add this translation if you can / Mother Aisa is ringing her bell / The Papa-spirit woman is shaking her rattle",
"ref": "1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 94:",
"text": "Grɛ̨nya na goro, / Ma Aisa ɛ loi ɛ̨ŋg dyɛ̨ndyɛ̨n, / Papa-umą ɛ̨ŋ seki ɛ̨ŋ saka.",
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129
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102
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"english": "So, although his tongue was filed / the moment he raised his voice / all people got startled / by how he made a noise like a bell",
"ref": "1953 July 18, Albert Helman, “Fos'tem-tori [Olden days story]”, in Het Nieuws, Paramaribo: A.J. Morpurgo, page 6:",
"text": "So, a–was' en tongo feerie / no–mo di a hopo stem, / alla liebi–soema skreki / fa a bari lek' djendjen (.)",
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25
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"english": "Girl, I didn't hear the bell!",
"ref": "1976, Edgar Cairo, Kollektieve schuld, of wel Famir'man-sani. [Collective guilt, or family members' things.], Baarns/The Hague/Brussels: Het Wereldvenster/NOVIB/NCOS, →ISBN, page 163:",
"text": "Wenk'o, mi no jere gengen!",
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"word": "teilefown"
},
{
"word": "konkrutitei"
},
{
"word": "kari"
}
]
}
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"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒend͡ʒeŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɟenɟen/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɪ̞nd͡ʒɪ̞̃ŋ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒe̝nd͡ʒe̝ŋ]"
}
],
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],
"word": "gengen"
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"Sranan Tongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu",
"Sranan Tongo terms with IPA pronunciation"
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"word": "naki wan gengen"
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72
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"text": "Grɛ̨nya na goro, / Ma Aisa ɛ loi ɛ̨ŋg dyɛ̨ndyɛ̨n, / Papa-umą ɛ̨ŋ seki ɛ̨ŋ saka.",
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125,
129
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94,
102
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"text": "So, a–was' en tongo feerie / no–mo di a hopo stem, / alla liebi–soema skreki / fa a bari lek' djendjen (.)",
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24,
28
]
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19,
25
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"text": "Wenk'o, mi no jere gengen!",
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}
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[
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]
],
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"word": "teilefown"
},
{
"word": "konkrutitei"
},
{
"word": "kari"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒend͡ʒeŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɟenɟen/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒɪ̞nd͡ʒɪ̞̃ŋ]"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈd͡ʒe̝nd͡ʒe̝ŋ]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"nl:Pieter Muysken"
],
"word": "gengen"
}
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