[Mihalic] baret etymology

[Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies]

Ross (1992:381) also suggests TP "baret" from Indonesian "parit", meaning
'ditch, trench'.

Ross, Malcolm
	1992	"The Sources of Austronesian Lexical Items in Tok Pisin."
In The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, ed. Tom
Dutton, Malcolm Ross, & Darrell Tryon, pp. 361-84. Pacific Linguistics, C
110. Canberra: Australian National University.

Don

>Ai bilong mi pas.
>Yes, well it could well be parit. Any dissenters?
>John Burton
>
>>John has a question about etymology for "baret".  It is likely from
>>Indonesian (parit=ditch, moat), or perhaps from proto-Austronesian.
>>John incorrectly listed the Mihalic etymology as Melanesian, but
>>Mihalic actually wrote "Mal" (Malay) not "Mel" (Melanesian).
>
>>E.g., See p. 410 of
>>Echols, John M. & Schadily, Hassan (1989). An Indonesian-English
>>Dictionary. Third Edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
>
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