Where does “pepa bilong toilet” come from?

pepa bilong toilet (Tok Pisin) comes from Tok Pisin toilet, from English toilet, from French toilette, from French Toile, from Old French toile, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela — to cover; pole, stick, beam.

pepa bilong toilet (Tok Pisin): toilet paper

Definitions

  1. toilet paper

Ancestry of “pepa bilong toilet”, step by step

pepa bilong toilet traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tok Pisin toilet

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tok Pisintoilettoilet
2EnglishtoiletA covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread...
3Frenchtoilettetoilet; the toilet, lavatory
4FrenchToileWeb; World Wide Web
5Old Frenchtoilefabric; web
6Old FrenchteileAlternative form of toile
7Latintēlaweb
8Old Dutchtegela
9Proto-Germanic*tigulā
10Proto-Germanictigulǭtile; brick
11Latintēgulaa large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex
12Latintegōto cover; to clothe
13Proto-Italictegōcover
14Proto-Indo-European(s)teg-to cover; pole, stick, beam

via Tok Pisin pepa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tok Pisinpepapepper; paper; document
2EnglishpaperA sheet material used for writing on or printing...
3Middle Englishpaperpaper; A text, message or note; something that is...
4Old Frenchpapierto murmur
5Old Catalanpaperpaper sheet material typically used for writing on or printing
6Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
7French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
8Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
9Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
10Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
11Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
12Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
13Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Tok Pisin bilong

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tok Pisinbilongof, belonging to; having a tendency to, known...
2EnglishbelongTo have its proper place; To be part of, or the...
3Middle Englishbelongen
4Middle Englishbe-
5Old Englishbe-a productive prefix usually used to form verbs...
6Old Englishhrōpanto shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl; to cry...
7Proto-West Germanichrōpanto cry out, to call, to shout
8Proto-Germanichrōpanąto cry out, call, shout
9Proto-Indo-Europeanḱer-to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,...
10Proto-Indo-Europeankr̥-to turn, to bend
11Proto-Indo-Europeanker-army
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg-