tabea
Ternate
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)
Noun
[edit]tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)
- a greeting, an act of greeting
Verb
[edit]tabea (Jawi تبيىٰ)
- (transitive) to greet
Conjugation
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | totabea | fotabea | mitabea | |
| 2nd person | notabea | nitabea | ||
| 3rd person |
masculine | otabea | itabea yotabea (archaic) | |
| feminine | motabea | |||
| neuter | itabea | |||
References
[edit]- 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
West Makian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Ternate tabea (“to greet, a greeting”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tabea
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics