toduku
Ternate
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from tuku (“slanting, sloping”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]toduku (Jawi تدوکو)
- (stative) to be crosswise, transverse
- (stative) to be aslant, diagonal
- (stative) to lie athwart, to be in the way
Conjugation
[edit]| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inclusive | exclusive | |||
| 1st person | totoduku | fotoduku | mitoduku | |
| 2nd person | notoduku | nitoduku | ||
| 3rd person |
masculine | otoduku | itoduku yotoduku (archaic) | |
| feminine | motoduku | |||
| neuter | itoduku | |||
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