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Saramaccan
Etymology
Probably from Kongo ki-mbóolo (“West African slender-snouted crocodile”).[1]
Noun
ambolo
- a species of large lizard
References
- ^ 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.