sagali

Kilivila

FWOTD – 22 December 2015

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡali/

Noun

sagali

1. ceremonial distribution of yams etc., performed during rituals related to spirits of the dead

References

• Bronisław Malinowski (1916), Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands, pp. 165, 205. (retrieved 25 September 2015)
• Gunter Senft (1986), Kilivila: the Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Berlin • New York • Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 358. →ISBN