OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

•  tree trunk.

Note: BNG (Saro, Rahim, et al. 1982:48): wata ‘tree trunk’; PAD (Lara, Larobu, et al. 1991:83): wata ‘log’; TOL (Muthalib, Alimuddin, Chalik, et al. 1985:153): wata ‘tree trunk’. According to Gouweloos (1936:67), in Tolaki particularly meaning a fallen tree trunk. [PMP *bataŋ ‘trunk, stem, log’ (Blust)]