dyatawiwiri

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Possibly from Mende ndatawulo (“Borreria ramisparsa”) +‎ wiwiri (“plant”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒataˈwːiɾi/, /ɟataˈwːiɾi/, [d͡ʒa̠ta̠ˈwːiɾi], [d͡ʒɑ̟tɑ̟ˈwːiɾi]

Noun

dyatawiwiri

  1. Borreria prostrata

References

  1. ^ Tinde van Andel, Charlotte I. E. A. van ‘t Klooster, Alexandra M. Towns, Diana Quiroz, Sofie Ruysschaert, Margot van den Berg (1 December 2014) “Local plant names reveal that enslaved Africans recognized substantial parts of the New World flora”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America‎[1], →ISSN, Supporting dataset 2, line 12
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