tjonto
Peranakan Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay contoh (“example”), from Tamil சௌத்து (cauttu, “pattern, sample, model”).
Noun
[edit]tjonto
- example
- Lebi koesoet dari ini tjonto adalah orang jang trima boedel atawa harta besar zonder kerdja soeatoe apa.[1] ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
References
[edit]- ^ Kwee Hing Tjiat (1921) Doea Kapala Batoe [Two Hardheaded (Persons)] (in Peranakan Indonesian), Nauer & Dimmick, page 73