Kituba
[edit]Adjective
[edit]petepete
Lingala
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Kongo pete-pete.
Adjective
[edit]petepete
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Kongo pete-pete (“soft, flabby, slimy”)[1] and Yoruba pẹtẹpẹtẹ (“mud”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Ideophone
[edit]petepete
Descendants
[edit]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 451
- ^ G. Huttar (1985), “Sources of Ndjuka African vocabulary”, in New West Indian Guide[1], →ISSN, page 56
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