surinen

noun

1. (plural, plural-only)An ethnic group who were the earliest known inhabitants of what is now Suriname.

   “Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.”

   “1593 - Spanish explorers visit the area and name it Suriname, after the country’s earliest inhabitants, the Surinen.”

   “They called the colony “Surinam” after the Surinen indigenous people who then inhabited the “land of many waters” in the fertile Guiana plains.”