bakru

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Probably 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

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bakru

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

References

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  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