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Etymology
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
Pronunciation
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