OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 264

jaha

•  wave(eng).golf(nld).

mie ma-jaha

(1) waves from the north(eng).de golven uit het noorden(nld).

(2) to sink(eng).zinken(nld).

Note: this is what one calls (at Ternate) the swell on the beach during the months of December and January

jojaha

•  to submerge (of persons only)(eng).doen zinken (dit alleen van menschen)(nld).