The word means "Under the shade," and had its origin as follows:-PAI and his wife lived there, and had a daughter called Sina.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before"
George Turner
One day PAI and his wife returned from some plantation work and found Sina crying, as the eel had bitten her.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before"
George Turner
With more education, he would have become a Rommany Bid- PAI; and since India is the fatherland of the fable, he may have derived his peculiar faculty for turning morals and adorning tales legitimately from that source.
"The English Gipsies and Their Language"
Charles G. Leland