Punjabi edit

Etymology edit

From Paisaci Prakrit [Term?] (compare Sauraseni Prakrit [script needed] (māusī)), from Sanskrit मातुःष्वसृ (mātuḥṣvasṛ).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ਮਾਸੀ (māsīf (Shahmukhi spelling ماسی)

  1. aunt (mother's sister)

References edit

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mātuḥṣvasr̥”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press