Kreyòl Pale: Tokay

Kreyòl Pale will be the the semi-regular mini-post about some of my favorite rare, funny or funky Haitian Creole words and phrases. And we launch with...

Tokay!

Two people are tokay when they share the same first name. As in: "Se tokay mwen." (They're my tokay). I have met very few tokay (only two as far I remember), and its precisely the first one I met that reminded me of the word.

Now, why Haitian Creole needs a word for something so specific is one of the Great Mysteries of the Universe...