àkàtà
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Saramaccan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Kongo n-káta (“porter's pad”), from Proto-Bantu *-kata (“headpad”).[1]
Noun[edit]
àkàtà[2]
- cotton headpad for carrying loads
- 2002, Marvin Gould Kramer, Substrate Transfer in Saramaccan Creole, University of California, Berkeley, page 254:
- a wási dí donú àkàtà jabí a sitónu
- he/she washed the yellow headpad and opened it out on a stone
References[edit]
- ^ 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
- ^ Gould Kramer, Marvin (2002) Substrate Transfer in Saramaccan Creole (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, page 239