OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 294

kaicil

Variants: kaicili

•  title of a ruler or someone of royal birth.titel van een vorst of voor iemand van vorstelijke afkomst.

Note: Tiele (Tiidschr. Kon. Inst., 4th series, Vol. I, p. 357) is mistaken when he says that this title does not apply to sultans

Origin: in Malay usually translated as

Origin: prins [prince]