Wiktionary

anyooká

Aukan edit

Etymology edit

Probably from Kongo n-yóka (“snake”), from Proto-Bantu *njókà (“snake”).[1]

Noun edit

anyooká

  1. fer-de-lance, Bothrops lanceolatus[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 426
  2. ^ Aukaans-Nederlands Woordenboek‎[1], SIL International, 2003
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