akáta
Saramaccan
Etymology
Probably from Kongo fùúndu nkáta (“to sit tailor-fashion, lap”).[1]
Adverb
akáta[2]
- cross-legged, tailor-fashion
References
- 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
- Gould Kramer, Marvin (2002) Substrate Transfer in Saramaccan Creole (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, page 239