Talk:tjanten

Etymology

I am at a loss as to the etymology.

• Given the differing pronunciation, I don't think it is related to Dutch chanten, from English to chant; I could not find a meaning of to chant as "to seduce, to flirt" in (Caribbean) English.
• The absence of an end vowel in the Sranan Tongo cognate tyant seems to me to rule out a palatalization of a word from seventeenth-century English or Dutch; moreover, in that case, it would probably turn up in older sources.
• A modification of sjansen?

Appolodorus1 (talk) 12:31, 11 August 2023 (UTC)