Central Melanau

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Central Melanau cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : telou

Etymology

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From Proto-North Sarawak *təlu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Numeral

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telou

  1. three

Karawa

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Noun

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telou

  1. woman

References

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  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Portuguese

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Verb

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telou

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of telar