Example 71-104

Wau pimai no ma Sana Miguela.
Wau
1sg
pimai
come
no
intens
ma
loc
Sana
são
Miguela.
Miguel
I come from São Miguel.
Comment:
Pi mai ‘come’ is spelled without a space in the analyzed text to yield a one-to-correspondence between morpheme and gloss. It is almost always spelled with a space in extant sources and thus appears with this conventional spelling in the published literature on Pidgin Hawaiian. Although mai is analyzable as a directional, pi never occurs alone as a basic motion verb ‘go’ or ‘come’.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Own data 1894