baloma

Kilivila

FWOTD – 21 January 2016

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈlom(a)/

Noun

baloma

1. 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