Editing Tok Pisin (section)

==Vocabulary==<!-- This section is linked from [[List of British words not widely used in the United States]] -->
Many words in the Tok Pisin language are derived from [[English language|English]] (with [[Australian English|Australian]] influences), indigenous [[Melanesia]]n languages, and [[German language|German]] (part of the country was under German rule until 1919). Some examples:
*{{lang|tpi|as}} = "bottom", "cause", "beginning" (from ''ass''/''arse''). {{lang|tpi|As ples bilong em}} = "his birthplace". {{lang|tpi|As bilong diwai}} = "the stump of a tree".
*{{lang|tpi|bagarap(im)}} = "broken", "to break down" (from ''bugger up''). The word is commonly used, with no vulgar undertone, in Tok Pisin and even in Papua New Guinea English.
**{{lang|tpi|bagarap olgeta}} = "completely broken"
*{{lang|tpi|balus}} = "bird" or more specifically a pigeon or dove (an Austronesian loan word); by extension "aeroplane"
*{{lang|tpi|belhat}} = "angry" ({{lit|belly hot}})
*{{lang|tpi|belo}} = "bell", as in {{lang|tpi|belo bilong lotu}} = "church bell". By extension "lunch" or "midday break" (from the bell rung to summon diners to the table). A fanciful derivation has been suggested from the "bellows" of horns used by businesses to indicate the beginning of the lunch hour, but this seems less likely than the straightforward derivation.
*{{lang|tpi|bensin}} = "petrol/gasoline" (from German {{lang|de|Benzin}})
*{{lang|tpi|bilong wanem?}} = "why?"
*{{lang|tpi|braun}} = "brown"
*{{lang|tpi|buai}} = "betelnut"
*{{lang|tpi|bubu}} = "grandparent", any elderly relation; also "grandchild". Possibly from [[Hiri Motu]], where it is a familiar form of "tubu", as in "tubuna" or "tubugu".
*{{lang|tpi|diwai}} = "tree", "wood", "plant", "stick", etc.
*{{lang|tpi|gat bel}} = "pregnant" ({{lit|has belly}}; {{lang|tpi|pasin bilong givim bel}} = "fertility")
*{{lang|tpi|gras}} = "hair" (from ''grass'')
*{{lang|tpi|gude}} = "hello" (from ''[[:en:wikt:g'day|g'day]]'')
*{{lang|tpi|gut}} = "good"
*{{lang|tpi|(h)amamas}} = "happy"
*{{lang|tpi|hap}} = a piece of, as in {{lang|tpi|hap diwai}} = a piece of wood (from ''half'')
**{{lang|tpi|hapsait}} = "the other side" (from ''half side'')
**{{lang|tpi|hap ret}} = "purple" (from ''half red'')
*{{lang|tpi|haus}} = "house" or "building" (from German {{lang|de|Haus}} and/or English ''house'')
**{{lang|tpi|hausboi/hausmeri}} = "a male/female domestic servant"; {{lang|tpi|haus boi}} can also mean "servants quarters"
**{{lang|tpi|haus kaikai}} = restaurant ("house [of] food")
**{{lang|tpi|haus moni}} = "bank" ("house [of] money")
**{{lang|tpi|haus sik}} = "hospital" ("house [of] sick")
**{{lang|tpi|haus dok sik}} = "animal hospital" ("house [of] dog sick")
**{{lang|tpi|haus karai}} = "place of mourning" ("house [of] cry")
**{{lang|tpi|sit haus}} (vulgar) = "toilet" ("shit house"), also:
***{{lang|tpi|liklik haus}} = "toilet"
***{{lang|tpi|smol haus}} = "toilet/bathroom" ("small house")
**{{lang|tpi|[[Haus Tambaran|haus tambaran]]}} = "traditional Sepik-region house with artifacts of ancestors or for honoring ancestors; {{lang|tpi|tambaran}} means "ancestor spirit" or "ghost"
*{{lang|tpi|hevi}} = "heavy", "problem". {{lang|tpi|Em i gat bigpela hevi}} = "he has a big problem".
*{{lang|tpi|hukim pis}} = "catch fish" (from ''hook'')
*{{lang|tpi|kaikai}} = "food", "eat", "to bite" (Austronesian loan word)
**{{lang|tpi|kaikai bilong moningtaim}} = "breakfast"
**{{lang|tpi|kaikai bilong nait}} = "dinner/supper"
*{{lang|tpi|kakaruk}} = "chicken" (probably onomatapoetic, from the crowing of the rooster)
*{{lang|tpi|kamap}} = "arrive", "become" (from ''come up'')
*{{lang|tpi|kisim}} = "get", "take" (from ''get them'')
*{{lang|tpi|lotu}} = "church", "worship" from Fijian, but sometimes {{lang|tpi|sios}} is used for "church"
*{{lang|tpi|magani}} = "wallaby"
**{{lang|tpi|bikpela magani}} = "kangaroo" ("big wallaby")
*{{lang|tpi|mangi/manki}} = "small boy"; by extension, "young man" (probably from the English jocular/affectionate usage ''monkey'', applied to mischievous children, although a derivation from the German {{lang|de|Männchen}}, meaning "little man", has also been suggested)
*{{lang|tpi|manmeri}} = "people" (from {{lang|tpi|man}} "man" and {{lang|tpi|meri}} "woman")
*{{lang|tpi|maski}} = "it doesn't matter", "don't worry about it" (probably from German {{lang|de|macht nichts}} = "it doesn't matter")
*{{lang|tpi|maus gras}} = "moustache" ("mouth grass")
*{{lang|tpi|meri}} = "woman" (from the English name ''Mary''); also "female", e.g., {{lang|tpi|bulmakau meri}} ({{lit|bull-cow female}}) = cow.
*{{lang|tpi|olgeta}} = "all" (from ''all together'')
*{{lang|tpi|olsem wanem}} = "what?", "what's going on?" (literally "like what"?); sometimes used as an informal greeting, similar to ''what's up?'' in English
*{{lang|tpi|[[palopa]]}} - homosexual man, or transsexual woman
*{{lang|tpi|pisin}} = "bird" (from ''pigeon''). (The homophony of this word with the name of the language has led to a limited association between the two; [[Mian language|Mian]] speakers, for example, refer to Tok Pisin as {{lang|mpt|wan weng}}, literally "bird language".)
*{{lang|tpi|pasim}} = "close", "lock" (from ''fasten'')
**{{lang|tpi|pasim maus}} = "shut up", "be quiet", i.e. {{lang|tpi|yu pasim maus}}, literally "you close mouth" = "shut up!"
*{{lang|tpi|paul}} = "wrong", "confused", i.e. {{lang|tpi|em i paul}} = "he is confused" (from English ''foul'')
*{{lang|tpi|pikinini}} = "child", ultimately from [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]-influenced [[Lingua franca#Historical sense|Lingua franca]]; cf. English ''[[pickaninny]]''
*{{lang|tpi|raskol}} = "thief, criminal" (from ''rascal'')
*{{lang|tpi|raus, rausim}} ({{lang|tpi|rausim}} is the transitive form) = "get out, throw out, remove" (from German {{lang|de|raus}} meaning "out")
*{{lang|tpi|rokrok}} = "frog" (probably onomatopoeic)
*{{lang|tpi|sapos}} = "if" (from ''suppose'')
*{{lang|tpi|save}} = "know", "to do habitually" (ultimately from [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]-influenced [[Lingua franca#Historical sense|Lingua franca]], cf. English ''savvy'')
*{{lang|tpi|sit}} = "remnant" (from ''shit'')
*{{lang|tpi|solwara}} = "ocean" (from ''salt water'')
*{{lang|tpi|sop}} = "soap"; also
**{{lang|tpi|sop bilong tut}} = "toothpaste"
**{{lang|tpi|sop bilong gras}} = "shampoo"
*{{lang|tpi|stap}} = "stay", "be (somewhere)", "live" (from ''stop'')
*{{lang|tpi|susa}} = "sister", nowadays very commonly supplanted by {{lang|tpi|sista}}. Some Tok Pisin speakers use {{lang|tpi|susa}} for a sibling of the opposite gender, while a sibling of the same gender as the speaker is a {{lang|tpi|b(a)rata}}.
*{{lang|tpi|susu}} = "milk, breasts" (from Malay {{lang|ms|[[:wikt:susu#Malay|susu]]}})
*{{lang|tpi|tambu}} = "forbidden", but also "in-laws" (mother-in-law, brother-in-law, etc.) and other relatives whom one is forbidden to speak to, or mention the name of, in some PNG customs (from ''tabu'' or ''tambu'' in [[Taboo#Etymology|various Austronesian languages]], the origin of Eng. ''taboo'')
*{{lang|tpi|tasol}} = "only, just"; "but" (from ''that's all'')
*{{lang|tpi|Tok Inglis}} = "English language"
*{{lang|tpi|wanpela}} = "one", "a" ([[indefinite article]]).