OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Heston (2015): Fataluku Central

Page number: 199

tua

(1) palm wine(eng).

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

(3) alcohol in general(eng).

Scientific name: Borassus flabellifer

Origin: Indonesian loan, from tuak ‘palm wine'