Etymograph

English

manicole

Manicole comes from Guyanese Creole English manicole, and goes back to Lokono manaka.

  1. Lokonomodernmanaka
  2. Guyanese Creole Englishmodernmanicole
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Lokonomodernmanaka
  2. Guyanese Creole Englishmodernmanicole
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1883same form

Earliest quotation: 1883, Everard Ferdinand im Thurn, Between the Pomeroon and the Orinoco: “Next to the mangrove and mora, the most abundant…”

The story

The English word is cognate with Tariana mánaka, Yucuna manakóla.

Every English word from Lokono manaka

Today it means

noun Any of the genus Euterpe of palm trees native to Central America, South America, and the West Indies; especially of species Euterpe oleracea (acai palm).

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Etymograph / Lokono manaka / manicole

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