OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Blust & Trussel (2019b): Proto-Malayo-Polynesian

*bataŋ

•  tree trunk, fallen tree, log; stem of a plant; body; corpse; self; bridge of the nose; most important or preeminent thing; main course of a river; mushroom or bracket fungus that grows on tree trunks or decaying logs.

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