OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  stalk.

Note: WAWₕ: tangke ‘stalk, ear (of grain)’; BNGₕ: tangke ‘ear (of grain)’; MRBₕ (Esser 1933:270): tangke ‘thick, inflexible stem’ hence classifier for counting ears of corn, etc.; TOL (Gouweloos 1936:65): tangge ‘stalk, stem (whether thick and stout or thin and flexible)’; MEKₕ: tangge ‘branch, trunk, midrib (of palm frond)’. [PAN *taŋkay ‘stem, trunk’ (Dyen & McFarland 1970 660)]