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ngaun

Bingham

ngáun

a. ten used in counting bong, ririki, ritoro, inaki, atao, wa, and whenever a digit is followed by a numeral suffix, ai, ung, man, nga, kai, kora coconut are counted by bunches of ten.
see tengaun.

Sabatier

ngaun

an. ten, tens. 100 <hundred> coconuts.

Topics: Coconut, Numbers and counting