arawe

Bislama: ?; Pijin: narawe; TSC: nadawei.

Note that the -we in arawe is denoting both ‘way’ as in ‘method’ and ‘way’ as in ‘direction’. In PPE or early TP it may be that the second meaning was also conflated with we = ‘where’.

See original Mihalic entry.

Modifier forms

1. the other way, another way, some other way
   yu no tanim olsem, tanim arawe don’t turn it like that, turn it the other way
   pasim rop arawe to tie the rope some other way

2. some other place, elsewhere, in different directions
   yu no kam hia, yo go arawe don’t come here, go somewhere else
   mi go arawe, yu go arawe I’ll go one way, you go another

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