cunia

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Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from Hokkien 船仔 (chûn-iá, small boat), with an obsolete form of the suffix.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: cu‧ni‧a

Noun[edit]

cunia (first-person possessive cuniaku, second-person possessive cuniamu, third-person possessive cunianya)

  1. boat (a rather large canoe made of wood, used to transport goods)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language: According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing about 12,000 Characters[1] (overall work in English and Hokkien), Macau: East India Press, page 736
  2. ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum, kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P., 1626-1642; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

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