juanga

Ternate

Etymology

Cognates include Tidore juanga, Sahu juangan, Loloda juangana, and Tabaru juangana. On this basis, a form like *juaŋan is reconstructible, likely to the Pre-Proto-Ternate-Tidore stage, from which it was borrowed into the other North Halmaheran languages. The term may ultimately come from a suffixed form of Old Javanese joṅ, especially if a form jwaṅ also existed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.ˈa.ŋa/

Noun

juanga

1. the juanga, a large Ternatean warship, particularly associated with the Sultanate

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh