[Mihalic] 'Eating water' in Tok Pisin?

[Ngawae Mitio]

My own vernacular, Biangai, Wau, Morobe Province also has one term, ne! for 
eat, drink and smoke (not chew buai). I have never heard people say kaikai 
smok or kaikaim wara. Kaikai buai, yes. Although the term used for chewing 
buai is not eat.

Ngawae Mitio
Department of Language &
Communication Studies
University of Technology, Lae, PNG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandra Aikhenvald" <A.Aikhenvald at latrobe.edu.au>
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:49 AM
Subject: [Mihalic] 'Eating water' in Tok Pisin?


> Dear experts in Tok Pisin,
>
> I have a quick question for you-all, regarding Tok Pisin.
>
> I am now writing a chapter on Semantics, for my Manambu grammar. Manambu
> has one word, ke-, which covers eating, drinking (and also smoking)-
> similarly to Kwoma a 'ingest' in Ross Bowden's dictionary. And I have
> been able to find a similar type of polysemy in almost every Ndu
> language (with the exception of Ngala (also known as Gala) and Yelogu).
>
> What struck me in a word list of Boikin (Yengoru dialect), compiled by
> A. Freudenburg (1975; SIL archives), was a Tok Pisin equivalent of the
> English verb 'drink': this was given as kaikaim wara.
>
> Does it make any sense to any of you? Have you ever heard this used?
> Could this reflect some regional variety?
>
> All the best
>
> Sasha
>
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