OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  base; trunk; origin.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:25, 78): pu'u ‘trunk’ (of tree), pu'u-no ‘cause’ (with 3rd singular pronoun suffix); WAWₕ, MRBₕ (Esser 1927:53), MRA (Adriani 1914:246): pu'u ‘trunk’ (of tree); PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:58): pu'u ‘tree; base, beginning, root’; TOL, MEKₕ: pu'u ‘trunk’ (of tree). [PAN *puqun ‘basis, trunk, origin’ (Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 2781)]