tamanwa
Sranan Tongo
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Etymology
[edit]Probably from Kari'na [Term?] and/or Lokono [Term?].[1] Compare Old Tupi tamandûá (“anteater”).
Noun
[edit]tamanwa
- giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
- 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore[2], New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:
- Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’
- [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']
- Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’
Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: tamanoa
References
[edit]- ^ J. van Donselaar (1994) “Karaïbische en Arowakse plante- en dierenamen in het Sranantongo en het Nederlands van Suriname [Carib and Arowak plant and animal names in Sranan Tongo and Surinamese Dutch]”, in OSO. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde en geschiedenis[1] (in Dutch), Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, →ISSN, page 54