telou

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Central Melanau

Central Melanau cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : telou

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *təlu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

Numeral

telou

  1. three

Karawa

Noun

telou

  1. woman

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Portuguese

Verb

telou

  1. third-person singular preterite indicative of telar