gokabaut

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

Probably from a blend of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cpe-spp" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. go and walk about. Compare Tok Pisin wokabaut.

Verb

Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cpe-spp" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

  1. To walk.

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
  • Mühlhäusler, Peter (1983). "Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin", in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh: The Social Context of Creolization, 28–76.