OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Heston (2015): Fataluku Central

Page number: 199

tua

(1) palm wine.

(2) palm tree from which palm wine is made; sugar palm.

(3) alcohol in general.

Scientific name: Borassus flabellifer

Etymology: Indonesian loan, from tuak ‘palm wine'