[Mihalic] bautim, pretim

[Lawrence.Sorbo at lihir.com.pg]

As a pidgin speaker, "PRETIM" can mean: Afraid of or to scare.
 
1. Mi pretim devil long nait.
2. Mi mekim pretim dok na em ino singaut long mi.
 
Cheers!
Lawrence
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mihalic-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:mihalic-bounces at anu.edu.au]On Behalf Of Nancy Sullivan
Sent: Monday, 10 January 2005 10:31 PM
To: Fr Patrick Gesch, SVD; Mihalic List
Subject: RE: [Mihalic] bautim, pretim


Fr Pat: I've heard this use of 'pretim' alot around Madang, for the past couple of years. Just tonight I suggested painting a lizard for my granddaughter and her mother said, 'Nogat--em bai pretim em!'  Poretim/pretime seems to be 'to scare' as well as 'to fear.' ---Nancy Sullivan

-----Original Message-----
From: mihalic-bounces at anu.edu.au [mailto:mihalic-bounces at anu.edu.au]On Behalf Of Fr Patrick Gesch, SVD
Sent: Monday, 10 January 2005 6:22 AM
To: Mihalic List
Subject: [Mihalic] bautim, pretim


Just coming from holidays in the Sepik near the River.
 
bautim:-- "Yumi no ken go long dispela rot, em i bautim ples tais na em i longwe tumas."
 
It is possible that this speaker was making a neologism, but he is not an English speaker, and was not trying to be funny. The word as I understood it meant, "go raun long".
 
pretim:-    I continue to run into the use of this expression in the non-transitive sense.
 
    e.g., "Dispela pikinini i no save pretim dok."
            "Mi wanpela meri mi save pretim bik si."
 
These statements don't make sense in the transitive meaning. Here the meaning seems to be: pretim = is afraid of.
 
Olsem, husat i guria taim mi tok, "Jeff i save pretim mi"?
 
     Pat Gesch.

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