marbonsu
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Kimbundu madimbondo (“wasps”),[1] a variant of marimbondo, plural of rimbondo (“wasp”), possibly via Portuguese marimbondo.[2] Compare Guyanese English marabunta (“Polistes infuscatus”).
Noun
[edit]marbonsu
- umbrella wasp, any wasp of the genus Polistes
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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 442
- ^ J. van Donselaar (2013) Nicoline van der Sijs, editor, Woordenboek van het Nederlands in Suriname van 1667 tot 1876 [Dictionary of the Dutch Language in Suriname from 1667 to 1876], Amsterdam, The Hague: Meertens Instituut/Nederlandse Taalunie, →ISBN, page 145.