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Aukan
Etymology
Probably from Kongo n-yóka (“snake”), from Proto-Bantu *njókà (“snake”).
Noun
anyooká
- fer-de-lance, Bothrops lanceolatus
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
- ^ Aukaans-Nederlands Woordenboek, SIL International, 2003