butabuta

Cebuano

Etymology

Reduplication of buta.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧ta‧bu‧ta

Noun

butabuta

  1. a swift; a small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight
  2. the blind-your-eye mangrove (Excoecaria agallocha)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably from Kongo lu-butia-butia, Yombe lu-buta-buta ("nightjar").[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /butabuta/, [buta̠buta̠], [butɑ̟butɑ̟]

Noun

butabuta

  1. potoo (any bird of the family Nyctibiidae)
  2. nightjar (any bird of the family Caprimulgidae)

References

  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 431
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