Baining
Robin Hide
rhide at coombs.anu.edu.au
Sat Sep 14 21:23:27 EST 2002
At 05:19 PM 13/09/02 -0800, you wrote
>limbung/limbum: a strong stick; Caryota rumphiana palm bark (Hesse &
>Aerts, 1982: 211). Mihalic (1971) reports the etymology of limbum as
>coming from a New Ireland language. Hesse & Aerts (1982: 211) however
>give the Tok Pisin words limbung and limbum as synonyms of the Baining
>word livu. They give the Baining word livunga as the word for palm tree
>and livung as the plural of palm tree. Does anyone know which New Ireland
>language limbum is from; perhaps the word is actually from the Baining?
.
According to Peekel (Peekel, P. G. (1984). Flora of the Bismarck
archipelago for naturalists. Lae, Office of Forests.)
New Ireland names for Caryota are: (p. 58)
in Pala( Patpatar): galah
in Lamekot (East Kara): gelat
another candidate might be (in the Palmae family)
Cyrtostachys peekeliana (Abundant palm in New Ireland primary forest, outer
very hard layer of trunk made into plants p/ 63-65)
in Lamekot (East Kara): lifur
(in Pala Patpatar): a-ihul)
Robin
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