nengre

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English nigger. For the unexpected nasal consonant, compare nyun, mangri, onfu, mindri, kwinsi, nangra.

Noun

nengre

1. a black person

   Synonyms: blakaman, krioro, (dated) [Term?]

2. a man
3. (compounds) a person
4. (informal) Sranan Tongo

   Synonyms: Sranantongo, Sranan, (dated) nengretongo

Derived terms

• Businengre (“someone from one of the groups of Maroons in Suriname”)
• lowenengre (“runaway slave”)
• mannengre (“companion”)
• negregron (“a garden plot where food is grown”)
• nengre-oso (“a small house”)
• nengredoro (“gate”)
• nengrenoto (“souari nut”)
• nengretongo (“Sranan Tongo”)
• pikinnengre (“child”)

 

Descendants

• Aukan: nengee
• Saramaccan: në́ngë

References

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “nengre”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary