[Mihalic] Malo

Thomas H. Slone THSlone at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 14:10:49 EST 2005


The word is not in Jourdan's Pijin dictionary and not in Shnukal's 
Broken dictionary.

>Re (1): Not listed in Crowley's Bislama dictionary
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Burton [mailto:john.burton at anu.edu.au]
>Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 10:31 a.m.
>To: Mihalic at anu.edu.au
>Cc: apawley at coombs.anu.edu.au; Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au
>Subject: [Mihalic] Malo
>
>Browsing the Shipping Gazette, as one does, I picked up the 
>following usage of 'maro' which we see in Tok Pisin as 'malo' (also 
>'mal' which was Mhialic's entry with the attribution 'Gaz.', and I 
>presume 'maro' in some places).
>
>Four of the women came alongside, and if they were a sample, they 
>may be considered rather good looking, having a very fine 
>expression, black eyes shaded by a beautiful long dark lash, 
>features regular, figure good, rather inclined to be stout, they 
>appeared naturally graceful and sage in their manner; their dress 
>consisted of a piece of native cloth round the waist; the men wore 
>the maro - the usual dress among nearly all the Polynesian Islands, 
>it is made of several tiers of dried grass, about eighteen inches 
>long, strung together, and fastened round their waist.
>T. Beckford Simpson, Nautical Surveys - Pleasant Island, Shipping 
>Gazette and General Sydney Trade List, Vol 1 (12) 8 June 1844, p.85 
>[Simpson's visit to Nauru of 1 February 1843] 
>
>The questions I have are: (1) is 'maro' or 'malo' also known in 
>Pijin or Bislama? (2) is there other evidence to attribute it to 
>Pacific Pidgin English as it may have been in 1843? (3) is the word 
>so common in Austronesian languages that the balance of probability 
>is that it entered Tok Pisin locally and independently?
>
>John Burton
>
>Dr John Burton
>Research Fellow
>Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
>Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
>Australian National University
>ACT 0200 Australia
>
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