buai

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Tolai (or a closely related language, like Label) buai.

Noun

buai

areca; betel nut
Noken kaikai buai long smolhaus. Buai pekpek stap tumas doti.
No chewing betelnut in the restroom. The spit from betelnut is very dirty.

See also

daka
limbum

References

Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)‎^[1], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN

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