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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
foheka, woman, wife; nonau foheka tagi kasaha, where are the woman and man going?; ge oriki
ana ma-ngofa si foheka riuwah, he rarely meets with his wife and children any more.
foloi, more, more than; it is always placed after the adjective or counter, e.g. lamo foloi,
ngaratumoi foloi. In common speech it is most often lebe, and placed before the adjective, e.g.
lebe laha.
fonai, oti fonai, a proa, used for the cakalang fishing.
forah, plain; forah madiahi, large plain; also the place of the earliest settlement on a lower rise
on the Ternate mountain.
fores: front room, inside vestibule of a European house (the Dutch voorhuis).
forskot, to advance (as in money, loans or goods) (the Dutch voorschot).
foso, same as boboso, see earlier entry.
foturu, severe, serious, to a high degree; talalu foturu, very severe.
frei, free (the Dutch vrij); sifrei, to free.
freiman, private person, private; pake freiman, normal civilian clothes, neither uniform nor
ceremonial dress.
futu, night, evening; difutu, the morning, the following day; sofutu, at night, in the evening;
sofutu si wange, night and day (from these forms it would seem that an inland system of
calculation, in which the day followed the night, already existed before the coming of Islam);
sofutu tarah, the same evening; futu konorah, midnight.
G
Gaane, a district, which forms the southern part of the island of Halmahera, and belongs to the
Sultanate of Ternate. It has been mistakenly written as Ganu, Gani or Ganeh by several
writers.
gabadi, left, to the left.
gabah, leaf-stalk and mid-vein of the sago palm (in the Malay of the Moluccas, gabah-gabah),
which is used to make walls, lofts and floors.
falah gabah, a house of which the above-mentioned parts consist of gabah.
gaburah, duck.
gadi, pay, salary (the Dutch gage).
gagah, fever, the so-called apue.
gahu: magahu, to germinate; gogahu, concern, business, profession, function, position.
gai, worm, maggot.
gaku, high; pangkat yang gaku, a high position.
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