bangulá
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Saramaccan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Kongo báángúla (“to force (open), to break open, to pull down, to disclose”), from Proto-Bantu *-bang-ud (“to open up”).[1] Cognate of Aukan bangula.
Adjective[edit]
bangulá
Ideophone[edit]
bangulá
- Signifies walking drunkenly, to sway
Noun[edit]
bangulá
Verb[edit]
bangulá
References[edit]
- ^ 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
- ^ Chris de Beet, Miriam Sterman (1981) People in between: the Matawai Maroons of Suriname[1], Meppel: Krips Repro, page 263