OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 288

futu

•  night; evening(eng).nacht; avond(nld).

difutu

•  the morning; the following day(eng).morgen; den volgenden dag(nld).

sòfutu

•  at night; in the evening(eng).s nachts; des avonds(nld).

sòfutu si wangenight and day (from these forms it would seem that an inland system of calculation, in which the day followed the night, already existed before the coming of Islam)(eng)

sòfutu tarahthe same evening(eng)

futu konorah

•  midnight(eng).middernacht(nld).