nyonyau

Ternate

Etymology

Partial reduplication of hau (“to fish”) with N- prefixation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲo.ˈɲa.u/

Noun

nyonyau

1. a kind of fishing tool

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh