Surinen

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsʊ.ɹɪˈnɛn/, /ˈsʊɹ.ɪ.nɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

Surinen pl (plural only)

1. An ethnic group who were the earliest known inhabitants of what is now Suriname.
   • 2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures‎^[1], →ISBN, page 20:

     Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.

   • 2012 October 18, BBC, “Suriname country profile”, in BBC‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-03-19:

     1593 - Spanish explorers visit the area and name it Suriname, after the country’s earliest inhabitants, the Surinen.

   • 2017 March 15, Hany A. El-Shemy, Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Back to Nature‎^[3], →ISBN, page 114:

     They called the colony “Surinam” after the Surinen indigenous people who then inhabited the “land of many waters” in the fertile Guiana plains.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Surinen.