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| dingina | 2 excess ~ going beyond others in honours, marks in examinations, etc; advance, excess |
| diso fampana | 3 excess ~ [fampana, a chasm, a precipice] excess, superfluity. Probably from water flowing over in excess. See mihoa-pampana |
| diso ohatra | 4 excess ~ [ohatra, a measure] excess, being beyond the measure or limit |
| diso lakana | 5 excess ~ [lakana, a canoe] a river which has changed its course, and hence used for excess, superfluity (Prov.) |
| amby | 6 excess (an) ~ excess, surplus, the thing over. It is much used in counting, as, roa amby ny folo, two in excess of ten, hence twelve. In the provinces we have folo roa amby, and so with all the other numbers. It was also used formerly in repeating numbers in the ceremony of circumcision, as, isa amby roa, one and two; roa amby roa, two and two. ~ excess, surplus |
| ambiana | 7 excess ~ [amby, excess.] An excess; used adverbially for "more than;" as, misy zato ambiana, There are more than a hundred. |
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