Austronesian origins

Ross Clark (FOA DALSL) r.clark at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Oct 8 18:17:01 EST 2002



> susu / breast, milk / Mal /  Indonesian "susu" meaning "breast" or 
> "milk" (Echols & Shadily, 1989: 536); Kaulong (West New Britain 
> Province) "susu-n" meaning "breast" (Tryon, 1995, 2: 499) and 
> proto-Austronesian "*súsu" meaning "breast" (Tryon, 1995, 1: 1154)

This could also be Samoan.

Ross Clark

 


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