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TERNATE THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
tiadi, to replace, change.
tiahi, in order, ready, smooth, even; e.g. malolofu tiahi bolo foloi, one of two, odd or even?
madiahi, to dress, get dressed.
sidiahi, to prepare, get ready, clear away; in the imperative, often abbreviated to diahi.
tibah-tibah, at once, suddenly (from Malay).
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tifah, drum or tambourine of native-make, manufactured from seho- or ligua- wood in the form
of a hollowed-out cylinder, the top brace with snake- or deerskin, to which a few pieces of
hardened gum are stuck. One beats on it with the right hand with a piece of wood and by
holding the skin with the left hand, the sound can be muted.
tikah, to stay, be left, remain behind; maku-tikah, to leave each other; fo maku tikah aku
uwah, we should not leave each other.
sidikah and sidodikah, to leave behind, leave.
tike, to search, look for; sitike, to make or let someone else look for.
tinggalu, the Viverra zibetha, from whose testes musk is obtained. One also calls it bura, but I
think that that is more Tidorese.
tino, to weave; dino, loom.
titah, order, to order (from Malay).
titi, to change, replace.
to, I; used by itself or as emphasis with another pronoun of the first person, e.g. fangare to waje
maruah, I have said; fajaro to tagi, I went.
Tobelo, name of a district on the east coast of North Halmahera, belonging to the Sultanate of
Ternate.
Toboko, name of a place and brangka to the south of the capital, on the road to Kastela.
Tobona, place of the earliest settlement on the island of Ternate, almost directly north of the
present kampong of Fitu; Valentijn less correctly calls it Tabona while he mentions (Ib, p. 180),
among other things, a relocation of this village, which seems at present to have been forgotten.
Tobuku, a region on the east coast of Celebes, under the administration of a Raja and
belonging to the Sultanate of Ternate; called Tobungku by the local population and often
Tombuku by others.
tocah, wax, coming almost exclusively from the western dependencies of the Sultanate of
Ternate.
Todore, the native pronunciation of the foreign bastardization of Tidore.
toduku, transverse, diagonal.
tofan, hurricane, squall (from Arabic).
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