OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  Ternate (the most current pronunciation, although one hears Tarnaté and Taranaté)(eng).[Ternate] tegenwoordig de meest gevolgde uitspraak, ofschoon somwijlen Tarnaté en Taranaté gehoord worden(nld).

Note: It is generally denied that the original name was Tahinate (compare Gapi). Temminck (III, p. 142) says that the name is derived from an expression used when the first Mohammedans arrived and claims that Ternate was called Leinaugopie before the introduction of Islam.