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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
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Ternatese-English Word-List 1
aci, to crack, break or split, of walls and the ground.
adat, custom, habit (from Arabic).
ade-ade, appearance, outward shape.
adi, still, besides, moreover; gila-gila ofiriadi, he then also ran away.
adu, under, below; enane ma-adu, underneath; toma ngote ma-adu, at the bottom of the
stairs.
adu, spleen.
afah, not (vetative); afah waje mina, do not.
riafah, id.; the prefix ri does not seem to have a special meaning but appears to be added
only for the sake of euphony, unless it is used for superiors and equals to make the
interdiction sound less strong.
afo, a tree, Hernandia sonora L.; the bark is put in the wash-water of newly born children.
In Miquel and Filet it is wrongly called “Asso” and “Bifi mafalla.”
ahadi, Sunday (from Arabic).
ahali, family, blood-relationship (from Arabic).
ahi, rind, shell, skin, cover; lemo ma-ahi, the rind of a lemon; bia ma-ahi, the shell of a
shell-fish; upas garnati ahi, the guards with tortoise-shell head-covering.
ajaib, wonderful (from Arabic).
akal, ingenuity, cleverness (from Arabic).
akbar: bia akbar, a kind of pearl-shell, in which small pearls are found; some call these
bia akar bahar.
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1 [p. 245, n. 1] Titles given to the present Sultan at his accession have not been included in this list,
since on Ternate the prevailing view is that the transcription followed in the Government almanac is not
correct. For the spelling of foreign words, I refer to what has been noted on pages 193 and 197 [of the
original work ⎯Trans.].
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