Mostly comments on existing entries

Ross Clark (FOA DALSL) r.clark at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Jul 9 17:45:01 EST 2002


Taro: the proto-oceanic word for taro is "*talo(s)" (Osmond, 1998: 127), so
the attribution of Fijian origin by Mihalic may  be too specific.  
 Ross Clark (FOA LING)] 
 
Not just "too specific" but downright impossible, I'd say, given that the
Fijian word is /dalo/ and that Tok Pisin does not normally confuse l and r.
The most obvious immediate source for TP /taro/ is English, which got the
word from Tahitian. 
 
Ross Clark

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