tanety

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Malagasy

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *tanete; compare Makasar tanete.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /taˈneti/, [tḁˈnetʲ]

Noun

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tanèty

  1. plateau (flat, elevated land)
  2. slope, hill (sloped land)
  3. mainland, continent

References

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  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 726.
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