tupela

Unfinished topic.

Pacific Pidgin English: *tu + *fala.

® tu.

Number forms

  1. two
    tupela man two men, also two people
    tupela ten twenty (bush pidgin)

Preposition forms

  1. together with (where two are concerned) ® wantaim
    Yosep tupela Paulus Joseph and Paulus

Modifier compound forms

  1. tupela maus deceitful, hypocritical

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