ambolo

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Saramaccan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Kongo ki-mbóolo (“West African slender-snouted crocodile”).[1]

Noun[edit]

ambolo

  1. a species of large lizard

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
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