anyooká

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Aukan

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Etymology

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Probably from Kongo n-yóka (snake), from Proto-Bantu *njókà (snake).[1]

Noun

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anyooká

  1. fer-de-lance, Bothrops lanceolatus[2]

References

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  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
  2. ^ Aukaans-Nederlands Woordenboek[1], SIL International, 2003