OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  shoot; side-sprout.

Note: MRN (Muthalib, Pattiasina, et al. 1983:19): tuna ‘sprout’; KUL: cuna ‘secondary sprout (as from a stump or cut-off branch)’; WAWₕ: tuna ‘sprout’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): tuna ‘shoot, sprout (from side of branch)’. [PMP *tunas (Dempwolff, cited in Zorc 1971 3701)]