Ternate

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Etymology

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Likely from tuku (slanting, sloping).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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toduku (Jawi تدوکو)

  1. (stative) to be crosswise, transverse
  2. (stative) to be aslant, diagonal
  3. (stative) to lie athwart, to be in the way

Conjugation

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Conjugation of toduku
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totoduku fotoduku mitoduku
2nd notoduku nitoduku
3rd Masculine otoduku itoduku, yotoduku
Feminine motoduku
Neuter itoduku
- archaic

References

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  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh