Tok Pisin words with local meanings?

[Mesulam Aisoli]

Yes Suzanne, all are widely used in the New Guinea Islands Coastal people,
"harim" for obey, "kandere" for materna relatives, "wannem" for namesake,
"kaikai" for cargo, especially Trade Store Goods, or manufactured,and when
it comes to eating, we use "kaikai" as well, "kuskus" for a clerk,
secretaries or someone who travels with important politicians or managers.
"strong bilong graun" is also recognised as "ples daun" which means that any
wrong doings or mistakes cannot be easily avoided because we are part of the
"ples daun" therefore "strong bilong graun" would always win.

mesu.

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> From: 	Suzanne Grismeri[SMTP:ukarumpa at hotmail.com]
> Reply To: 	ukarumpa at earthling.net
> Sent: 	Wednesday, 3 April 2002 10:09pm
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Tok Pisin words with local meanings?
> 
> >Tok Pisin words with local meanings used by the Dakoa Cult of
> Bali Island,
> West New Britain Province:
> >
> >harim: to obey (Lattas, 2001: 168, 172)
> >kandere: 1) maternal relative 2) country (Lattas, 2001: 168)
> >wannem: namesake (Lattas, 2001: 176); does this have wider
> usage?
> >kaikai:euphemism for cargo (Lattas, 2001: 179)
> >kuskus: clerk, secretary (Lattas, 2001: 179); does this have
> wider usage?
> >strong bilong graun: kind of spirit (Lattas, 2001: 188)
> 
> All but the last of these were standard in Manus tok pisin in
> the 70s-80s.
> cheers, jk
> 
> **** harim and strong bilong graun were used widely in EHP tok Pisin in
> the 
> 80s-90s, but haven't heard the others.
> Suzanne Earley.
> 
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