from the English jocular/affectionate usage monkey, applied to mischievous children, although a derivation from the German , meaning "little man", has also been suggested) manmeri = "people" (from man, "man", and meri, "woman") maski = "it doesn't matter", "don't worry about it" (probably from German = "it doesn't matter") maus gras = "moustache" ("mouth grass") meri = "woman" (from the English name Mary); also "female", e.g., bulmakau meri (lit. "bull-cow female") = cow. olgeta = "all" (from all together) olsem wanem = "what?", "what's going on?" (literally "like what"?); sometimes used as an informal greeting, similar to what's up? in English palopa - homosexual man, or transexual woman pisin = "bird" (from pigeon). (The homophony of this word with the name of the language has led to a limited association between the two; Mian speakers, for example, refer to Tok Pisin as wan weng, literally "bird language".) pasim = "close", "lock" (from fasten) pasim maus = "shut up", "be quiet", i.e. yu pasim maus, literally "you close mouth" = "shut up!" paul = "wrong", "confused", i.e. em i paul = "he is confused" (from English foul) pikinini = "child", ultimately from Portuguese-influenced Lingua franca; cf. English pickaninny raskol = "thief, criminal" (from rascal) raus, rausim (rausim is the transitive form) = "get out, throw out, remove" (from German meaning "out") rokrok = "frog" (probably onomatopoeic) sapos = "if" (from suppose) save = "know", "to do habitually" (ultimately from Portuguese-influenced Lingua franca, cf. English savvy) sit = "remnant" (from shit) solwara = "ocean" (from salt water) sop = "soap"; also sop bilong tut = "toothpaste" sop bilong gras = "shampoo" stap = "stay", "be (somewhere)", "live" (from stop) susa = "sister", though nowadays very commonly supplanted by sista. Some Tok Pisin speakers use susa for a sibling of the opposite gender, while a sibling of the same gender as the speaker is a b(a)rata. susu = "milk, breasts" (from Malay susu) tambu = "forbidden", but also "in-laws" (mother-in-law, brother-in-law, etc.) and other relatives whom one is forbidden to speak to, or mention the name of, in some PNG customs (from tabu or tambu in various Austronesian languages, the origin of Eng. taboo) tasol = "only, just"; "but" (from that's all) Tok Inglis = "English language" wanpela = "one", "a" (indefinite article). Example text Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Tok Pisin: Article 1 of the Universal Declaration