Baining

[John Wagner]

In Lababia on the Morobe Coast south of lae, "Limbung"
is used exactly as described by Jenny. But I remember
it as a a Kela term - their language. No? Or maybe it
was borrowed into Kela? Or to Tok Pisin first, then to
Kela? That is happening a lot now in Lababia.

John Wagner 


--- Jenny A Xomerang <jenny at xomerang.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In Madina village, New Ireland (Nalik language),
> "limbung" refers to a wild
> palm, and to its (very hard) bark that we use for
> flooring in houses.   This
> is ubiquitous - there is no other Nalik word for
> this tree.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jenny Axomerang.
> 
> ----------
> From: Robin Hide <rhide at coombs.anu.edu.au>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <MIHALIC at anu.edu.au>
> Cc: mihalic at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: Baining
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 9:23 PM
> 
> 
> At 05:19 PM 13/09/02 -0800, you wrote
> 
> limbung/limbum: a strong stick; Caryota rumphiana
> palm bark (Hesse & Aerts,
> 1982: 211). Mihalic (1971) reports the etymology of
> limbum as coming from a
> New Ireland language.  Hesse & Aerts (1982: 211)
> however give the Tok Pisin
> words limbung and limbum as synonyms of the Baining
> word livu.  They give
> the Baining word livunga as the word for palm tree
> and livung as the plural
> of palm tree.  Does anyone know which New Ireland
> language limbum is from;
> perhaps the word is actually from the Baining?
> .
> According to Peekel (Peekel, P. G. (1984). Flora of
> the Bismarck archipelago
> for naturalists. Lae, Office of Forests.)
> 
> New Ireland names for Caryota are: (p. 58)
> in Pala( Patpatar): galah
> in Lamekot (East Kara): gelat
> 
> another candidate might be (in the Palmae family)
> Cyrtostachys peekeliana (Abundant palm in New
> Ireland primary forest, outer
> very hard layer of trunk made into plants p/ 63-65)
> in Lamekot (East Kara): lifur
> (in Pala  Patpatar): a-ihul)
> 
> Robin
> 
> 


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