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Ternate
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Etymology
[edit]May be a partial reduplication of an unattested *suko. If so, compare Sahu susu'ono (“to be leaking”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sosuko (Jawi سسوکو)
- the naval shipworm (Teredo navalis)
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