Wiktionary

Baining

English edit

Etymology edit

An exonym from a Tolai language, meaning "inland people" with an originally pejorative connotation.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

Baining (plural Baining or Bainings)

  1. A member of the Baining people, indigenous to the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Proper noun edit

Baining

  1. The mountainous region of New Britain inhabited by the Baining people.

References edit

  1. ^ Fajans, Jane, They Make Themselves, page 13.
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