[Mihalic] Si param

[John Burton]

Eva

No, you didn't reply earlier as far as I can see. This is good stuff - any
more verby like things along the lines of huk, bombom and glas?

John Burton

> Hi, I think I didn't reply to this, so I'll take the risk
> of being repetitive.
> 
> On the other side of NI (from Lihir that is, in north central 
> NIP on the west coast) we have
> 
> _si_ for wave
> _sibruk_ for where the waves break - the boundary
> 	between the drairip and the dipsi
> _dipsi_ is deep sea, where the big fish are
> _rip_ is known but not very integrated it seems
> _drairip_ is lowtide but also the flat top of the
> 	dead reef in the bay, on top of which one
> 	can fish for octopus (_urita_) and where
> 	kids catch little fish etc (incl i think
> 	when the tide isn't actually out)
> _tait_ is mostly a predicate: wara i tait = the river
> 	is high (after rains), also solwara i tait for
> 	high tide but this is not used quite as much
> 	(homonym (N): tithe, for the church)
> _basis_ the passage
> 
> There may be some more. I don't know param. Deep is
> 'ples i go daun', and can think of no word for fathom.
> 
> _glas_ to fish with goggles using a spear (prob
> 	transitive too: _ol i glasim urita_)
> _bombom_ to fish from canoes at night, using dry
> 	coconut fronds (which are called bombom)
> _huk_ angle (_hukim pis_, _em i go huk_)
> 
> Eva
> 
> Eva Lindström
> Stockholm University