Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 8-163
Haad-iez pikni ded a son-at.
Haad-iez
hard-ear(s)
pikni
child
ded
die
a
at
son-at.
sun-hot
Disobedient children die at midday.
Comment:
This example is a proverb which suggests a punishment, possibly by sun-stroke, for disobedient children.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Jamaican
by
Joseph T. Farquharson
cite
Datapoints:
Pequenino: A word derived from pequenino exists
×