fotnait

English: ‘fortnight’.

In Australian and Papua New Guinea, wages and salaries are customarily paid every second Thursday.

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

  1. Time, season: pay week
    mani mi ken bekim long fotnait I can repay the money on pay week

Intransitive verb forms

  1. to get paid one’s wages - normally every fortnight

  1. to pool wages
    em i fotnait long mi he gave me his wages

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