bakru

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Kongo ǹ-kúlu (“ancestors, the dead”), from Proto-Bantu *-kudu (“adult, senior”).[1] Cognate of Saramaccan bakúlu (“lower god, dwarf ghost”), Aukan bakuú (“evil spirit”). Compare English baccoo

Noun

bakru

An evil forest spirit represented as a ghost-like little man with a big head

References

Norval Smith (2015), “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 427

[1] Norval Smith (2015), “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 427

单词	bakru
释义	bakru Sranan Tongo Etymology Probably borrowed from Kongo ǹ-kúlu (“ancestors, the dead”), from Proto-Bantu -kudu (“adult, senior”).[1] Cognate of Saramaccan bakúlu* (“lower god, dwarf ghost”), Aukan bakuú (“evil spirit”). Compare English baccoo Noun bakru An evil forest spirit represented as a ghost-like little man with a big head References Norval Smith (2015), “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 427
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