pisin

pisin

1. inflection of pisar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Proto-Finnic *picin. Equivalent to pide- +‎ -in, derived from *pide, the same root from which pitkä is derived.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisin/,
• Rhymes: -isin
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧sin

pisin

1. superlative degree of pitkä

• psiin

From English pigeon.

pisin

1. bird
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:20:

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Solwara i mas pulap long ol kain kain samting i gat laip. Na ol pisin i mas kamap na flai nabaut long skai.”

     →New International Version translation

From English pidgin.

pisin

1. clan
2. any pidgin or creole
   • 1992, collected by Mühlhaüsler et al. quoted in Language, Education, and Development: Urban and Rural Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea (Suzanne Romaine, Oxford: 1992)

   Na mipela i no save long Tok Pisin tu. Brata bilong mipela ol i go long stesin, orait ol i kisim save long stesin. Ol i kam bek orait ol i tok pisin.

   And we didn't know Tok Pisin either. Our brothers went to the station, and then learned new things in the station. Then they returned speaking in creole.

3. the Tok Pisin language

• Tok Pisin
• Pisin bilong Solomon