OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Schapper (2020): Wersing Peitoko

alu[aˈlu]

•  n. type of long wooden pestle that is used for pounding rice or maize.sejenis aluk terbuat dari kayu.

Kalang bong medisi alu gpai.Make a pestle with the wood of the gum-lac tree., Bikin aluk dengan kayu kusambi.

Etymology: Austronesian, cf. PMP *qahelu 'pestle' (ACD). Possible source languages for this borrowing can be found on all sides of Alor, e.g., Tokodede, Erai, Alorese |fn{alu} 'pestle'.

Etymology: bibref R003