sindaun

sindaun

Pacific Pidgin English: *sidaun.

Bislama: sidaon; Pijin: sidaon var. sindaon; TSC: sidaun.

Mihalic had sindaun buk, ‘to sit down all huddled up, to sit down hunched up’. Was this a missprint for sindaun bung, or is sindaun buk a real phrase?

See original Mihalic entry.

Noun forms

Church: personal or moral conduct
sindaun bilong ol i gutpela they are leading good lives

Society: social and economic development
em i mekim wok painimaut long sindaun bilong ol asples he is doing research on the social and economic development of villagers

Intransitive verb forms

to sit down, to sit
sindaun bung to sit down in a group
sindaun i stap to be sitting, to remain seated
sindaun pinis already seated

to sit down with the implication of one’s relations with others
sindaun bung to sit down with other parties and talk through issues
sindaun kranki (a) to sit with one’s dress improperly adjusted and underwear (or worse!) showing (b) to sit immodestly according to local customs: in general women must sit tidily cross-legged, but there may be further injunctions against sitting with the legs akimbo or outstretched where men or anyone carrying food may pass, for example.
sindaun long het bilong kanu to sit in the place of honour (in a canoe)

to concede to floor to another, to cease making a speech, to withdraw from a candidature for leadership ® sanap
man ya tingting long sanap, tasol bihain sindaun gen he was thinking of running, but he withdrew
yu go sindaun long hap! go and sit down over there! (order given to a would-be spokesman at a meeting, meaning ‘you do not have the right to stand’)

to live or stay, implicitly among others and always with the qualification of the state of the person’s relationship with others
sindaun gut to behave, to get along well, to live happily
sindaun namel long ol to sit down amongst them, to live amongst them, to stay with them
no sindaun gut to not live in happily or in good peace of mind
no save sindaun gut of a wife, roams about in town rather than attends to wifely duties; of a man, is restless and fails to attends to husbandly duties; of an adopted child, does not fit in properly
no save sindaun gut long ples to be restless, not to want to stay at home