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ades
a word from vocabulary
Takia
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Malcolm Ross
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Word form
ades
LWT meaning(s)
the hell
Word meaning
hell
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Early missionary period [29] (1912–1918)
Register
Christian
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Comments
I infer that /ades/ was introduced by German missionaries on Karkar, as the form reflects German (not English) pronunciation, and it apparently does not occur in Tok Pisin or Gedaged.
Source words
Hades
'Hades (Greek underworld)'
German
Hades
'Hades, the underworld'
Greek
Effect
Insertion
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
Bible teaching [29]
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