akáta

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Saramaccan

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Etymology

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Probably from Kongo fùúndu nkáta (“to sit tailor-fashion, lap”).[1]

Adverb

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akáta[2]

  1. cross-legged, tailor-fashion

References

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  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. ^ Gould Kramer, Marvin (2002) Substrate Transfer in Saramaccan Creole (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, page 239
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