masusa

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Sranan Tongo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Kongo ma-susa.[1] Cognate of Saramaccan masisa, Aukan masusa.

Noun[edit]

masusa

  1. Renealmia alpinia

Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: masoesa

References[edit]

  1. ^ Norval Smith (2015) “A preliminary list of probable Kikongo (KiKoongo) lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 443
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