gokabaut
Samoan Plantation Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
Probably from a blend of English go and walk about. Compare Tok Pisin wokabaut.
Verb edit
gokabaut
- To walk.
References edit
- Mosel, Ulrike (1980) Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (Pacific Linguistics; Series B, no. 73)[1], Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN
- Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76