opete
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Dutch[edit]
Verb[edit]
opete
Anagrams[edit]
Sranan Tongo[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Twi Akan ɔpɛtɛ (“vulture”)[1]
Noun[edit]
opete
- vulture
- 1961, Michaël Slory, ““Sarka – Gi Yomo Kenyata (Kenya)” [Bitter struggle – For Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya)]”, in Sarka / Bittere strijd[2], Amsterdam: Pegasus:
- Fri yu no kan skrifi na / ini den nangra fu den opete.
- Freedom cannot be written / in the clutches of vultures.
References[edit]
- ^ Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits (1936) Suriname folk-lore[1], New York: Columbia University Press, page 748