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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
Sultan (on northwest Halmahera it is just the opposite, about which van der Crab in Naidah, p.
467, makes a mistake; such usage is also found on Celebes). Ie tarah, to go upward and
downward, up and down. It sometimes has a verbal meaning, e.g. oie, he goes up or northward.
See also mie and kore.
igi, fish-trap.
igo, coconut; igo ma-ake, coconut water, also green coconut; igo ma-hate, coconut tree, Cocos
nucifera. Igo-igo, a plant, Phyllanthus urinaria Willd.
iha, to navigate a proa along the coast or, as the natives usually do, follow each inlet close to
the shore.
iho, muck.
ijah, value, price; kai ma-ijah, the price of a marriage, e.g. dowry.
ika, there; ika-ino, here and there.
imah, general name of the Dioscorea species.
imah kastela, Batatas edulis Chois.
imam, leader of the prayer (from Arabic).
iman: bariman, to have faith in; believing (from Arabic).
ingi: 1. tooth; ingi lamo, molar; doturu ma-ingi, thunder-stone. 2. the place where a reef ends
in the sea; thus it can only be compounded with nyare to form nyare ma-ingi.
ino, to come, e.g. oino si kolano, he came to the ruler; pasa toma enage iino uwah, they did not
come later.
ika-ino, see ika.
si ino ge, until, then.
io or iyo, elder brother or sister; io ma-ngofa, child of brother or sister.
irah, bad, evil.
isa, ashore, on shore; the opposite of hoko, to the sea.
ise, to hear, e.g. iise idin enage riuwah, they did not listen to that order; sigise or, better,
sigogise, to listen.
iskilmai, the clarinet-shaped instrument on which the key is given when the lego is performed
in the royal palace (corruption of schalmei [the Dutch shawm, “reed-pipe”]).
iskunyer, schooner (the Dutch schoener).
islam: manusia islam, Mohammedan.
isnen, Monday (from Arabic).
iso, tuber, root-tuber, root-stock.
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