tanety

tanety

Malagasy

Etymology

Borrowed from a South Sulawesi language, from Proto-South Sulawesi *tanete; compare Makasar tanete.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈneti/, [tḁˈnetʲ]

Noun

tanèty

1. plateau (flat, elevated land)
2. slope, hill (sloped land)
3. mainland, continent

References

1. Alexander Adelaar (2009), “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, DOI:10.1515/9783110218442, page 726.