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Language:
Malay
Parameter:
eye; focus; center; orifice; eye-like feature; the evil eye; numerical coefficient for things numbered by orifices such as the rungs of a ladder or the meshes of a net; also of the cutting edge of a knife or saw; point of a lance; source of a river; needle of a compass (= the point on which everything turns) [223b95230e5eb83070da048d49c7bb42]
References
Wilkinson 1959
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