109 Pequenino
This feature is described more fully in
chapter 109.
Summary
Many pidgins and creoles around the world have a word such as piccaninny , pikin or pickney for ‘child; offspring; small; little’ or similar meanings. It is commonly supposed that these words go back to Portuguese pequeno/-a , pequenino/-a or even pequenininho/-a (with double diminutive marking), all meaning ‘small’. This feature looks at whether or not pequenino is attested in the APiCS languages.
Authors
Magnus Huber and the APiCS ConsortiumValues
 | A word derived from pequenino exists | 39 |
 | A word derived from pequenino does not exist | 37 |
| Representation: | 76 | |
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