Sipaliwini

Dutch nl: Etymology Possibly ultimately from nl arw shibali species of freshwater scaly fish + nl arw oni rain, river, possibly influenced by nl tri, way, car sipari stingray.Konrad Rybka The linguistic encoding of landscape in Lokono 247, 252 Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics Utrecht 2016 978-94-6093-199-4 https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2691969/169806_RYBKA_THESIS_complete.pdf Rybka glosses shibali as 'stingray' and as a cognate of the Cariban terms, apparently erroneously so; see the other citations. Marie-France Patte La langue arawak de Guyane. Présentation historique et dictionnaires arawak-français et français-arawak 196 shibali w:Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Marseille 2011 978-2-7099-1715-5John Peter Bennett Arawak-English Dictionary. With an English word-list 39 shíbali w:Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology Georgetown 1989D.B. Fanshawe Glossary of Arawak names in natural history w:International Journal of American Linguistics 71 shibali 1949 Pronunciation nl Nl-Sipaliwini.ogg nl Si pa li wini Proper noun m,f nl rivier c/Suriname w:Sipaliwini River nl Sipaliwini-rivier Proper noun n nl district c/Suriname w:Sipaliwini District. from 1983 References