mutende

Sranan Tongo

Alternative forms

  • moetinde (superseded)

Etymology

Probably from Kongo ǹ-téende / mu-tende (“Capsicum frutescens”).[1] Compare Guianese Creole moutende kouali.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mutende/, [mutɪ̞ndɪ̞], [mute̝nde̝]

Noun

mutende

  1. Vochysia guianensis[2] (a neotropical tree species)
    Synonyms: gwanakwari, kwari, motikwari, mutendekwari, wiswiskwari
    • [1855, Hendrik Charles Focke, Neger-Engelsch woordenboek [Negro English Dictionary]‎[1] (in Dutch), Leiden: P.H. van den Heuvell, page 83:
      Moetínde, znw. een boom van dien naam.
      Mutende, noun, a tree of that name.]
    • [1883, F. W. Westeroüen van Meeteren, Surinaamsche planten en cultuurgewassen, boomen en houtsoorten [Surinamese plants and crops, trees and timber species]‎[2] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: J.H. de Bussy, page 34:
      Moetinde, een boom.
      Mutende, a tree.]

Descendants

  • Aukan: mutende

References

  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 448
  2. ^ Charlotte I.E.A. van ’t Klooster; Jan C. Lindeman; Marion J. Jansen-Jacobs (2003), Index of vernacular plant names of Suriname (BLUMEA Supplement), number 15, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Universiteit Leiden branch, →ISBN, page 150.
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