ego wrote:I've forgotten almost all my TP but I'm sure I've never encountered "tupela" and "tripela". Nor do I remember phrases like "mi stap wanpela man". I always thought this would be "mi wanpela man".
Who told you that "kaikai" comes from Maori? Kai is the common verb in most Pacific languages meaning "to eat". In Tongan too and I guess in the Malayopolynesian languages of PNG as well
ego wrote:I still think that saying that kaikai comes from Maori is absurd and has no logical basis. It could come from any Malayopolynesian language and many of them are spoken close or inside PNG, unlike Maori.
I had a TP native on my MSN list but not anymore
Abavagada wrote:ego wrote:I still think that saying that kaikai comes from Maori is absurd and has no logical basis. It could come from any Malayopolynesian language and many of them are spoken close or inside PNG, unlike Maori.
I had a TP native on my MSN list but not anymore
I CAN remove that one little sentence, ego. It won't hurt the course.
Erik / Aba
ego wrote:Abavagada wrote:ego wrote:I still think that saying that kaikai comes from Maori is absurd and has no logical basis. It could come from any Malayopolynesian language and many of them are spoken close or inside PNG, unlike Maori.
I had a TP native on my MSN list but not anymore
I CAN remove that one little sentence, ego. It won't hurt the course.
Erik / Aba
Don't remove it because of me. I'm no specialist, just saying my opinion
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