OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Mead (1998a): Proto-Bungku-Tolaki

Page number: 489

*wiaq

•  k.o. plant.

Note: BNG (Adriani 1900:257): fia ‘arum’ (ALOCASIA CELEBICA); TOL: wia ‘k.o. inedible, non-woody plant with large wide leaves often used for temporary umbrellas’. [PAN *biR₁aq [plant] HOMALOMENA (Dempwolff, Dyen, cited in Zorc 1971 1004)]