Sranan Tongo edit

Etymology edit

From foto (city) +‎ -man.

Noun edit

fotoman

  1. townsperson
    • 1985 September 1, “Kownoekondrebedinari ben teki na tjalansi [Kingdom ministers took on the challenge]”, in A waktitoren[1], Selters-Taunus: Wachtturm-Gesellschaft (Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), page 4:
      A no de wan ferwondroe sani dati den Nazarethsma ben taki foe den fosten fotoman: „Pe a man disi kisi na koni dan nanga den krakti wroko disi?”
      It's not a surprising thing that the people of Nazareth said of their former townsman: "Where then did this man receive this wisdom and these powerful works?"