OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

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

Page number: 491

*wunuQ

•  k.o. tree.

Note: MRB (Esser 1927:43): wunu ‘tree species’; TOL (Youngman 1997:pers.comm.): wunu ‘tree species, the bark of which is used for carrying straps, snares, and course thread’. [PAN *bunut ‘[tree]; coconut husk or fibers’ (Dempwolff, Dyen, in Zorc 1971 1151)]