OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 255

butu

(1) market; market-place(eng).markt; marktplaats(nld).

(2) to press; impress(eng).drukken; afdrukken(nld).

òsibutu cap kompanihe impressed the seal of the Government(eng)

Note: erroneously called bunton by Valentijn (Ib, p. 207)