nengre
Sranan Tongo
editEtymology
editFrom English nigger. For the unexpected nasal consonant, compare nyun, mangri, onfu, mindri, kwinsi, nangra.
Noun
editnengre
- a black person
- a man
- (compounds) a person
- (informal) Sranan Tongo
- Synonyms: Sranantongo, Sranan, (dated) nengretongo
Derived terms
edit- Businengre (“someone from one of the groups of Maroons in Suriname”)
- lowenengre (“runaway slave”)
- mannengre (“companion”)
- negregron (“a garden plot where food is grown”)
- nengre-oso (“a small house”)
- nengredoro (“gate”)
- nengrenoto (“souari nut”)
- nengretongo (“Sranan Tongo”)
- pikinnengre (“child”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “nengre”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary