baloma

Kilivila

FWOTD – 21 January 2016

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baˈlom(a)/

Noun

baloma

spirits of the dead, which go to Tuma Island and dwell there

Derived terms

baloma tolibabogwa

See also

kosi

References

Bronisław Malinowski (1916), Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands.
Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 191. ISBN 3-11-010781-3

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