Talk:tjanten

Etymology
I am at a loss as to the etymology. Appolodorus1 (talk) 12:31, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Given the differing pronunciation, I don't think it is related to Dutch, from English to ; I could not find a meaning of to chant as "to seduce, to flirt" in (Caribbean) English.
 * The absence of an end vowel in the Sranan Tongo cognate seems to me to rule out a palatalization of a word from seventeenth-century English or Dutch; moreover, in that case, it would probably turn up in older sources.
 * A modification of ?