POC *bekas > pekpek

[Piet Lincoln]

Some additional definitions on the existing entries asThank you Thomas H.
Slone for the useful scatological observations.  I would like to improve on
just one:

"pekpek: as for derivation, Steinbauer (p. 76) suggests it might be
onomatopoeic"

While the form does not quite regularly reflect the Tolai form /pekapeke/ as
pointed out by Ross 1992:376, I expect that both Tolai and Tok Pisin reflect
POc *bekas 'defecate...' without any appeal to onomatopoeia.  Indeed, I
commend Malcolm's contribution to the Laycock Denkshrift as one of the first
places to look for Tok Pisin etymologies.

Ross, Malcolm 1992 "The Sources of Austronesian Lexical Items in Tok Pisin"
in _The_Language_Game: papers in memory of Donald C. Laycock, edited by Tom
Dutton, Malcolm Ross, and Darrell Tryon, Pacific Linguistics Series C - 110.