potopoto

Kongo

Noun

potopoto

  1. mud

Lingala

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Kongo potopoto.

Noun

potopoto

  1. mud

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /potopoto/, [pʊ̞tʊ̞pʊ̞tʊ̞], [pɔ̝tɔ̝pɔ̝tɔ̝]

Etymology 1

Probably from Kongo poto-poto (“soft, not very compact, fluffy, swamp, marshy area”), Yoruba pọtọpọtọ (“mud”), Baoule pò̱to̱pó̱to̱ (“dirt, morass, mud”),[1] Igbo pọ̀tọ̀pọtọ (“dirt, morass, mud”), Twi Akan pɔ̀tɔpɔtɔ,[2], also compare Dyula and Bambara pɔ̀tɔpɔtɔ (“mud”), Eastern Maninkakan pɔ̀tɔpɔtɔ (“swamped bank of a brook”). Cognate of Krio pɔ́tɔpɔtɔ, Guyanese Creole English pʌ́tapʌ́ta, Cameroon Pidgin pɔ̀tɔ̀pɔtɔ, Jamaican Creole potopóto, potápotá.

Noun

potopoto

  1. mud

Descendants

  • Aukan: potopóto
  • Saramaccan: pɔtɔpɔ́tɔ

Etymology 2

Possibly compare Yoruba pátápátá (“completely”).

Noun

potopoto

  1. completely, utterly
    • 1990 December 1, “Banawtu ini na dyari [Distress in the garden]”, in A waktitoren‎[3], Selters-Taunus: Wachtturm-Gesellschaft (Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), page 9:
      Den weri potopoto fu dipi sari ede.
      They are utterly exhausted because of deep sadness.

References

  1. ^ G. Huttar (1985), “Sources of Ndjuka African vocabulary”, in New West Indian Guide‎[1], →ISSN, page 63
  2. ^ Norval H.S. Smith (1987) The genesis of the Creole languages of Surinam (PhD)‎[2], Universiteit van Amsterdam, page 104
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