OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 247

aké

•  water; river.water; rivier.

Note: Van Musschenbroek (Tidschr. Kon. Inst. 4th series, Vol. VII, p. 30) is undoubtedly carrying things too far when he says that this word is derived from the Spanish agua!

aké lamò

•  small stream; sometimes a place name.