keskesi
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Contraction of kesikesi, probably from Ewe kèse (“monkey”).[1]
Noun
[edit]keskesi
- collective name for several species of smaller monkeys
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction of kesikesi, possibly from Kari'na [Term?] and/or Lokono [Term?].
Noun
[edit]keskesi
References
[edit]- ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe 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 470.
Categories:
- Sranan Tongo terms with IPA pronunciation
- Sranan Tongo contractions
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Ewe
- Sranan Tongo lemmas
- Sranan Tongo nouns
- Sranan Tongo terms borrowed from Kari'na
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Kari'na
- Sranan Tongo terms borrowed from Lokono
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Lokono
- srn:Primates
- Sranan Tongo reduplications