The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Parameter roof of a house, granary, hut, shed; after the ... roofers have covered the four ridges of the pyramidal roof with bundles of grass, they begin covering the lower part of the (trapezoidal shelf of reeds that is lashed to the rafters) with layers of canes that still have leaves ... they continue their covering operation using now bundled sheaves of grass (Imperata cylindrica). Each layer is laid a little higher than the one already laid and strongly lashed to the (pair of reed stalks) of the by means of horizontally laid canes called [f4661ad8ddba89ee1fe74c8af9e3f761]