[Mihalic] baret etymology

[Thomas H. Slone]

And another confirmation from Tryon (1995, part 3, pp. 186-188), the 
closest Austronesian words to baret are:
Aceh: "parek"
Indonesian: "parit"
Minangkabau: "parik"
Note: "k" above is a glottal stop

>Ross (1992:381) also suggests TP "baret" from Indonesian "parit", meaning
>'ditch, trench'.
>
>Ross, Malcolm
>	1992	"The Sources of Austronesian Lexical Items in Tok Pisin."
>In The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, ed. Tom
>Dutton, Malcolm Ross, & Darrell Tryon, pp. 361-84. Pacific Linguistics, C
>110. Canberra: Australian National University.
>
>Don
>
>>Ai bilong mi pas.
>>Yes, well it could well be parit. Any dissenters?
>>John Burton
>>
>>>John has a question about etymology for "baret".  It is likely from
>>>Indonesian (parit=ditch, moat), or perhaps from proto-Austronesian.
>>>John incorrectly listed the Mihalic etymology as Melanesian, but
>>>Mihalic actually wrote "Mal" (Malay) not "Mel" (Melanesian).
>>
>>>E.g., See p. 410 of
>>>Echols, John M. & Schadily, Hassan (1989). An Indonesian-English
>>>Dictionary. Third Edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
>>
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