 The category of directly possessed nouns includes body parts (except for genitalia) and names, as well as direct objects such as “familiar places (e.g., one’s "umu" ‘house’), and indispensable objects (such as "wa" ‘canoe’ and "walu" ‘bush knife’).” Possessor suffixes are also applied to kin terms, for instance, mother "ʔama", father "ʔina", and child "ʔupu".As mentioned above, genitalia fall into the category of the general indirect possessum noun "ape", contrary to other body parts, which are treated as directly possessed.This may be due to a desire to maintain modesty, allowing the speaker to refer to genitalia without explicitly referring to the particular body part.