Etymology

Palawala

P3A1L1A1W4A1L1A1

Today it means: a local creole language, such as Antillean Creole or Jamaican Creole Full definition →

French parler
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The story

  1. French · derived fromparler
  2. English todayPalawala

Probably at least partly from French parler, with repetition to make it sound like babbling.

Words from the same roots

Frenchparler all →

parlayParler

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.