Northern Sami

Noun

balus

1. locative singular of ballu

Tok Pisin

Etymology

This term is from the Western Oceanic substrate languages; it was considered by Mihalic to have entered Tok Pisin from Tolai, but Mosel argues that it "has certainly not been introduced from Tolai, but from a southern New Ireland language. For, apart from some marginal dialects […] Tolai […] lack[s] the phoneme /s/."^[1]

Noun

balus

1. pigeon
2. aircraft
3. flight

Synonyms

• (pigeon) pisin

See also

• flai

References

1. ↑ Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)