OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 272

ragah

•  finger.vinger.

gia ma-ragah-ragahthe fingers of the hand

Note: They are: tuguhérah, thumb; sahádat, forefinger; kolano, middle finger; istinjah, ring-finger; and tugudéki, little finger.

Note: They are never mentioned separately but always as follows: gia ma-ragah-ragah ma-tuguherah,

Note: the thumb, literally, “the thumb of the fingers of the hand.”