Datapoint Pidgin Hawaiian/'Hear' and 'smell'

The value is 'Intermediate' because the corpus does not include a reference to smelling. The lexifier, however, distinguishes smelling from hearing via the verb honi 'smell', which only occurs in the corpus in the sense of 'kiss' (likely due to an accidental lexical gap). The same word covering both kissing and smelling is due to the Polynesian custom of greeting by reciprocally pressing noses together while inhaling. It is in a reference to this custom that the word in its reduplicated form occurs first in the data, in an attestation from the early contact period (in the late 1700s).

Values

Differentiation

Example 71-196:
honi
honi
smell
smell
Example 71-197:
Wau lohe kela wai nuinui walaau.
Wau
1sg
lohe
hear
kela
det
wai
water
nuinui
much
walaau.
chatter
I heard the water make a chattering sound.
Confidence:
Intermediate