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ambolo

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Saramaccan

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Etymology

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Probably from Kongo ki-mbóolo (West African slender-snouted crocodile).[1]

Noun

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ambolo

  1. a species of large lizard

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.