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susu, the breast, to suck the breast; bakasusu, to suckle. 



Samoa: susu, the breast; fa'asusu, to suckle. Futuna: susu, to 

 suck; u, the breast. Tonga: huhu, the breast, to suck the 

 breast; fakahuhu, to suckle. Niue: huhu, the breast, nipple; 

 fakahuhu, to suckle. Uvea : huhu, the breast, the nipple, to give 

 milk, to suck. Nuguria: huhu, milk; u, the breast. Tahiti, 

 Rarotonga : u, the breast, milk. Maori, Hawaii, Marquesas, 

 Mangareva, Paumotu: u, the breast. Fotuna: ko-u, to suck ; 

 vai-u, milk; ta-u, nipple. Rapanui: u, the breast; vaihu, milk. 



Viti : suthu, the breast, to suck the breast, to be born. 



Mota, Lamassa, New Ireland (Port Praslin), Mugula, Dobu, Galavi, 

 Boniki, Mukawa, Kubiri, Kiviri: susu, the breast. Laur: 

 susu, id. Mabuiag: sus(u), id. Motu, Suau: susu, milk. 

 Aneityum : nasusu, an infant. New Ireland (Carteret Harbor) : 

 susun, the breast. Brumer Island : susuga, id. Buka : ssussuge, 

 the nipple. New Ireland (Duffield) : susung, kasiing, the breast. 

 Lambell, Pala, King: sus, id. Mota Veverau: sus, id.; Maligo: 

 sis, id. Nada: sese, id. Buka: mata na sus, the nipple. 

 Buka: suss, the breast. Waima: tutu, id. Kiriwina, Raqa : 

 nunu, id. Oiun: mini, id. Taupota: g'ug'u, id. Wedau: 

 gugu, id. New Britain: n, id. Malo: susu, the breast, to 

 suck. Baki: yu, milk, nipple. Malekula: mi sus, to suck; 

 na sus, milk; susin, the breast. Bierian: ohun, the breast. 



Wango: haasusu, to lay (of a hen). Mota: mm,* - , to give birth. 

 Nggela: vahu, to be born. Norbarbar: visis, to give birth. 

 Retan: vusus, id. King: vusiis, id. Lambell: 'hiasus, id. 

 Lamassa: ia.yj<.y, id. 



Malay: mra, the breast, milk. Java, Bugi, Pampangas, Macassar: 

 susu, the breast. Tagalog: suso, id. Matu: susan, id. 

 Visayas: dughan, id. Kayan: twofe, the breast; .yo, milk. 



Waigiou : sus, the breast. Waigiou Alfuros : su, id. Malagasy : 

 nunu, id. 



Hebrew: s'od, the breast. Arabic: t'idy', t'udiyy', id. 



The data here collated will be found subject to a double complication. 

 In Viti we find suthu meaning the breast, to suck the breast, to be born. 

 If it were solitary we might strain analogies and strive to bring these two 

 into correlation, but we need go no further than Wango haasusu to find 

 reason to give over the effort, for it is only in botany that ornithogalum can 

 be conceived of as even a remote possibility. It will best be disposed of by 

 regarding susu of parturition as a distinctively Melanesian element which 

 chances to have the same form as the Proto-Samoan susu the breast. In 

 a separate paragraph I have set aside the Melanesian homogenetics of this 

 non- Polynesian susu. It will be seen that in general it appears in com- 

 position with the causative haa-va, and in Lambell and Lamassa it will be 

 observed that this has greatly disintegrated. 



In the sense of the breast susu is distinctly a Proto-Samoan possession, 

 primarily the breast and secondarily to suck the breast; for in Efat6, Samoa, 



