OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 285

ngòni

•  you.gijlieden.

ngoni nia nyauyour fish

ngòni ni wajéyou say

Note: personal pronoun, masculine and feminine plural; also possessive pronoun with nia added. Before verbs ni is added instead of nia. Ngòni is also used in its singular form when one does not want to address an inferior with the coarse ngana