susu
[ soo-soo ]
/ ˈsuˌsu /
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noun
an institutionalized kinship group among the Dobuans, composed of a woman, her brother, and the woman's children.
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Origin of susu
From Dobuan, dating back to 1915–20, said to mean literally, milk of the mother
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Susu
/ (ˈsuːsuː) /
noun
plural -su or -sus a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in Guinea, the Sudan, and Sierra Leone
the language of this people, belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family
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