different between guinea vs susu

English

Etymology

From Guinea, the country in West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ni/
• Rhymes: -?ni

Noun

guinea (plural guineas)

1. (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
   • 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

     If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.

2. (Britain, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...
3. Synonym of guinea fowl
   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Brooding and Homing,” ^[1]

     The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.

Synonyms

• (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, wog, wop

Descendants

• ? Irish: gine
• ? Scottish Gaelic: gini
• ? Spanish: guinea
• ? Welsh: gini

Translations

References

• “guinea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Finnish

Noun

guinea

1. guinea (British gold coin)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?nea/, [?i?ne.a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English guinea.

Noun

guinea f (plural guineas)

1. guinea (British gold coin)

Etymology 2

See guineo.

Noun

guinea f (plural guineas)

1. female equivalent of guineo

Adjective

guinea

1. feminine singular of guineo

English

Etymology

Possibly from West African Igbo or Yoruba isusu / esusu (“pooling the funds”).

Noun

susu (plural susus)

1. (finance) An informal money pooling scheme practised in Africa, the Caribbean, and some immigrant communities.
   • 2004, Mr. Rodolphe Blavy, Mr. Anupam Basu, Dr. Murat  Yülek, Microfinance in Africa: Experience and Lessons From Selected African Countries, International Monetary Fund ?ISBN, page 9

     The informal credit sector has been very active in Ghana and covers a range of activities known as susu, including individual savings […]

   • 2011, Tamara Mose Brown, Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community, NYU Press ?ISBN, page 128

     Irene empathized with her susu members as immigrants who were earning low wages in New York, but there appeared to be some socioeconomic advantages to being an organizer that she was not acknowledging.

References

Further reading

• Susu (informal loan club) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

'Are'are

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. breast

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Chamorro

Etymology

From Pre-Chamorro *susu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

Ewe

Noun

susu

1. idea
2. thought

Verb

susu

1. to think

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.sy/

Etymology

From sueur

Noun

susu m (plural susus)

1. (colloquial) sweat

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese sujo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu suja.

Adjective

susu

1. dirty

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay susu, from Proto-Malayic *susu(?) (“breast”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?susu]
• Hyphenation: su?su

Noun

susu (first-person possessive susuku, second-person possessive susumu, third-person possessive susunya)

1. (uncountable) milk:
   1. a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
   2. a white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans. Also called non-dairy milk.
2. (countable) breast
   1. (now colloquial, vulgar) two organs on the front of a female chest.

   2. the analogous organs in other animals.

Synonyms

• (milk): air susu
• (woman breasts): buah dada, tetek, payudara

Derived terms

Verb

susu

1. to breastfeed

Further reading

• “susu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

susu

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. (uncountable) milk

2. (colloquial, vulgar) breasts (of a woman)

Synonyms

• (woman breasts): tetek, prembayun, tetya.
• (milk): santên.

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Tagalog suso, Fijian sucu, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ?.

Noun

susu

1. breast

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Laboya huhhu (“milk”).

Noun

susu

1. (anatomy) female breast

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “susu”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 89

Limos Kalinga

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Compare Indonesian susu, Tagalog suso, Fijian sucu, Tongan huhu and Hawaiian ?.

Noun

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *susu(?), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /susu/
• Rhymes: -usu, -su, -u

Noun

susu (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive susuku, impolite 2nd possessive susumu, 3rd possessive susunya)

1. (uncountable) milk
2. (less used) breast (female organ)

Synonyms

• (breast): payudara, tetek

Descendants

• Indonesian: susu
• ? Tok Pisin: susu

Verb

susu

1. to breastfeed

Further reading

• “susu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Manchu

Romanization

susu

1. Romanization of ????

Palauan

Etymology

Borrowed from Oceanic, from Proto-Oceanic *susu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu. Palauan regularly has the sound change *s > t, found in tut.

Noun

susu

1. (Anatomy) female breast
2. milk

Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. milk

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Probably a reduplication of English shoe.

Noun

susu

1. shoe

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. (anatomy) breast

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Malay susu, from Proto-Malayic *susu(?), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *susu, from Proto-Austronesian *susu.

Noun

susu

1. milk
2. (anatomy) breast

Derived terms

• banis bilong susu

Related terms

• susuim (“suck”)

See also

• melek

Yakan

Noun

susu

1. breast

Derived terms

• pasusu (“to breastfeed”)