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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">For Teop, Shoffner records
<i>Terminalia catappa</i> as "kaoto", <br>
see p. 291 of Shoffner, R.K. 1976. <b><i>The economy and cultural
ecology of Teop: an analysis of the fishing, gardening, and cash cropping
systems in a Melanesian society</i></b>, PhD thesis, Honolulu, University
of Hawaii.<br><br>
Robin<br><br>
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</font>At 08:33 AM 10/09/2006, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Given that the name of this tree
in Rotokas is 'okaoto', the term 'kaot'<br>
is a probably neologism used by this particular speaker in the two<br>
dictionary examples he wrote. I'm guessing that it's not the standard
Tok<br>
Pisin term for this type of tree. If anyone knows otherwise, by all
means<br>
let me know.<br><br>
There is also a folk tale in Rotokas about this tree, as well as an<br>
associated song:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.zapata.org/stuart/linguistics/rotokas/matevu.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.zapata.org/stuart/linguistics/rotokas/matevu.shtml</a><br><br>
I'm in the process of updating the Shoebox texts and will probably
upload<br>
new versions within the next couple of days.<br><br>
-Stuart<br><br>
> It sounds like Terminalia catappa - but I have never heard
"kaot" in TP.<br>
><br>
> For a nice "folk" account of the distinctive structure,
red leaves, and<br>
> coastal location of T. catappa "Talis", see the
(autobiographical) novel<br>
> by Bernard Narokobi (East Sepik, Arapesh).<br>
> [Narokobi, Bernard (2002.) Two Seasons. Madang, PNG, Divine
World<br>
> University Press, see p. 68.]<br>
><br>
> Robin Hide<br>
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