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no negative answer. 
Adam he speak ‘No!’ L 363. 
You savez me? No, no savez. 
290, SG 29. 
A confusing precision in the use of the 
negative and affirmative is illus- 
trated in this scrap of dialogue: 
‘‘What name here” [do you want 
anything]? 
**No.’’ 
Noe’ 
“Ves.” F 106. 
no adjective. 
here no kaikai. SG tro. 
no water stop. G35. 
he no proper man belong my place. 
Se 441, 587. 
no adverb: not. 
that fellow mary he no savvee carry 
yam. G 207, 232, SG 20,24, 110, 
116, 121, 123, Se 383, 444, 441, J 77 
no do not. 
no be fraid Jonni, he good fellow. 
SG 24. 
now see this time. 
he likkilik all right now. SG 22, G 
243, Se 623. 
nusipepa a letter, any written or printed 
document. 
he savvee look along nusipepa: he is 
able to read. 
© interjection. This is certainly derived 
from the English use, for the char- 
acteristicexclamation of the Melan- 
esians is e or some variant thereon; 
in the 35 languages collated by Dr. 
Codrington an exclamatory o is 
found in but one, the Efaté. 
o he no sabe pull. SG 24, 29, 123, 
G 223. 
oar tail belong him just like oar. R 118. 
of there are but few prepositions in island 
speech, even at its richest develop- 
ment, yet most of these several 
languages have recognized a few of 
the relations which we indicate by 
of, and in a large number of cases 
they employ o or a. Accordingly 
man-o’-bush and the like expres- 
sions show a degree of cordiality 
toward the preposition of possess- 
sion which is lacking toward other 
such words. 
piece of word: sentence. G 106. 
off bush stop far off gardens there. Se 614. 
old old time fashion. Se 323. 
he old man. W 143. 
small fellow old man belong tail: the 
monkey. 
on by-n’-by he goon. G 207. 
he stop on top. Re 114. 
one the same. 
he no one sulu (clan). Se 441. 
one 
1. as indefinite article. 
god he make’m one big fennis all 
around garden. L 364. 
bimeby one day Eve she come along 
Adam. L 363. 
I think you wantum one fellow head. 
G 223, 212, 198, 260. 
2. one time. 
(a) formerly, once. 
one time Lamanian man he keep a 
bee there. G 243. 
(b) once, at once. 
suppose you killum kanaka one time 
he sore. 
only only he one: alone. V 252, HW 97. 
or look out for spear good along fight or 
some boy he get himspear. Se 560. 
other all same other fellow belong simoke. 
Re 114. 
he got house other side Matupi. W 
290. 
outside my boy outside all time: away from 
home. V 252. 
pain see sore. 
one fellow pain. 
paper see nusipepa. 
housepaper: government office. HW 
SG 20. 
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pappa pappa belong me he go finish yes’er- 
day. G 223. 
peasoup, pisupo 
This is the designation of all foreign 
foods which are preserved in tinned 
drums. Its origin is in fact less 
simple than might appear, for in 
the dietary schedule of the whalers 
pea soup was not put up in tins 
but freshly prepared in the galley 
when needed. ‘Soup and bully” 
was the only tinned food of such 
voyages. The term now covers 
all foods that come in round flat 
tins; beef is the staple article 
under this designation, for mutton, 
whether fresh or preserved, is gen- 
erally repugnant to the islander’s 
palate. Salmon is an exception to 
the peasoup classification, being 
known as samant. 
pickaninny child. Found in New Zealand 
in 1815 by Nicholas. 
pickaninny belong me. V 252. 
pickaninny stop along him fella: an 
egg. L361. 
Piece piece of word: sentence. R 106. 
break my people alla pieces. J 98. 
pig suppose me kaikai pig me die. SG 
121. 
pigeon any bird. V 252. 
grass belong pigeon: feather, V 253 
