Is thispalmetaa sporadic syncope, or a folk-etymology modification afterpalma‘palm of the hand’ or perhaps ‘palm tree’? For this last possibility, note that the original meaning Spanishpámpano‘pompano’ (the carangid fish) is ‘shoot of a grapevine, young foliage of a grape vine’; cf...
5 The Discussion Paper from which this extract it taken can be downloaded in full at openre- search-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/145592?mode = full. 7.4 Liquor Outlets in Queensland Communities 195 Fig. 7.1. This shift in expenditure away from basic sustenance to alcohol for this ...