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Tabaru
Etymology
Cognate with Ternate banga.
Pronunciation
Noun
bongana (underlying form bongan)
- forest, woods
- 'o bongana mabounu wasaame ― he smelled the air of the woods
References
- Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics