juangana

Loloda

Etymology

Likely borrowed into Proto-Galela-Tobelo or into Proto-Galela-Loloda from a Pre-Proto-Ternate-Tidore form such as *juaŋan (from which Ternate juanga; compare Galela juanga, Tabaru juangana, Sahu juangan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡ʒu.ˈa.ŋa.na/

Noun

juangana

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

References

  • M. J. van Baarda (1904) Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira