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Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Probably from Kongo nguba.
Noun
gobogobo
- Bambara groundnut (the edible seed of an African plant related to beans, Vigna subterranea, which produces its seeds underground, like peanuts.)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Norval Smith (2015) “Ingredient X: the shared African lexical element in the English-lexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 71
- ^ F.W. Ostendorf, editor (1962), Nuttige planten en sierplanten van Suriname (Landbouwproefstation in Suriname), number 79, page 85