bongana

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Tabaru

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Etymology

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Cognate with Ternate banga.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bongana (underlying form bongan)

  1. forest, woods
    'o bongana mabounu wasaamehe smelled the air of the woods

References

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  • Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics