OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  palm species.

Note: KUL: lanu ‘palm species, the source of a fiber used for wrapping small bundles’; BNGₕ (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:16): lanu ‘silar palm’; MRB (Adriani 1900:287): lanu ‘silar palm’; TOLₕ: lanu ‘lontar palm’. [compare PPH *lanut ‘manilla hemp’ (from MUSA TEXTILIS) (Charles, cited in Zorc 1971 2085)]