Example 71-116
Mauka ga pilikia.
I have a headache.
- Comment:
- This is from a complaint by a Japanese field labourer of having a headache during her period. However the example is not pure Pidgin Hawaiian but represents a mixed variety of Pidgin Hawaiian and Hawai'i Pidgin English (ga is a topic marker from Japanese). Here mauka, usually a directional referring towards the mountains, is used with the pidginized sense of 'above' as a circumlocution for the 'head'.
- Type:
- naturalistic written
- Source:
- own data 1900