OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Sneddon (1978a): Proto-Minahasan

Page number: 182

*tuba

•  plant used as fish poison.

Note: Ttb tuwa 'plant whose leaves are used to stun fish'; Tsw tuba 'stunned (of fish)' [PPh *tuba˙ 'plant: used as fish poison'].