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