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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
hoko, seaward, toward the sea-side.
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horu: 1. to paddle; a paddle (also, sari). 2. sea-crabs, the Palinurus species, e.g. horu jubi, horu
boso, etc.
hotu, to sleep; sihotu and masihotu, to lie down on something to sleep.
hudah, sago-flour; hudah raro, sago-bread or cookies.
hukum, title of headmen; also law, regulations; hukumul adat and hukum saraa, human and
divine law (from Arabic).
hunyah-hunyah, ornaments, decorations.
hutu: 1. hair of the head. 2. one (used for houses), the same as the Malay sabuwah [i.e., a
counter word ⎯Trans.]. 3. Also the origin of something, e.g. ake ma-hutu, source, well.
Perhaps there is some connection between this word and dihutu, but there is not generally
thought to be.
I
i, they; personal pronoun, masculine and feminine plural; usually used together with ana, e.g.
simarah iwaje, they said; ana iino, they come.
It is sometimes used if there is no plural form, so that one would be inclined to think that the
prefix is used for the sake of euphony, e.g. kapal iwosa mote Hiri si Babua ma-soah tarah, iumo
tapu toma labuan, the ship went southward through the strait between Hiri and Babua and
cast anchor in the roadstead.
Placed before nouns i is the possessive pronoun of the third person, masculine singular, e.g.
ironga, his name; ibabah, his father.
It gives a passive meaning to causative verbs, e.g. isinyata, to be explained; isingongaje, to be
narrated.
ibn, son (from Arabic).
ici, small, insignificant; ici si lamo, big and small.
idi, to yell, make a noise or sound.
idi-idi, a kind of starling, Lampitornis, with red eyes, which feeds on the fruits of the campaka
tree. It is caught with a special kind of trap.
idi-idi ma-lako, a trailer, Abrus precatorius L.; the leaves are a remedy against a cough. In
Filet and Miquel it is less correctly called “Ide-ide malako.”
idin, permission, also order, charge; therefore, to say or speak of a superior (from Arabic).
ido: nyau ido, a fish of the Thymnus species, called cakalang in the Malay of the Moluccas.
For more details see p. 45, n. 3 [of the original work ⎯Trans.].
ido waho, plant, a kind of alang-alang or glagah; the ears are eaten; the Dutch bloempluimen.
It is incorrectly called “Idomahu” by Filet.
ie, going up, upward; at Ternate this means northward, in the direction of the palace of the
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