Ibae

Etymology
Borrowed from the sight pronunciation of, from a misspelling of , from , the older orthographic spelling of.

Usage notes
The form is the traditional and official name of. The form is the most common local name, borrowed from English. This distinction is historical; most Marshallese residents of Ebeye today are not indigenous to this particular island, but are descended from refugees who were resettled by the United States government because of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. The islanders were introduced to the island through its English name rather than through the Marshallese name it already had. Since the English name was already derived obliquely from through a sight pronunciation of a misspelling of its German form, this made  a twice-borrowed term in Marshallese.