See also: маљ

Avar

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Akin to Bezhta милъо (milˢo) and Hinukh молъу (moλu), maybe also to Chechen мӏара (mˀara) and Old Armenian մագիլ (magil).

Noun

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малъ (malˢ) (plural малъал)

  1. nail (on fingers)
  2. claw
  3. hoof

References

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  • Nikolaev, Sergei L., Starostin, Sergei A. (1994) “*mɦǟƛă (~-ǝ̆)”, in A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary[1], Moscow: Asterisk Publishers
  • Saidova, P. A. (1999) “малъ”, in Диалектологический словарь аварского языка [Dialectological dictionary of Avar] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka, page 245b

Old Church Slavonic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *malъ.

Adjective

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малъ (malŭ) (comparative мьн҄ии)

  1. small

Declension

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References

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  • S. C. Gardiner, Old church Slavonic: an elementary grammar, Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Old East Slavic

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *malъ.

Adjective

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малъ (malŭ)

  1. small

Descendants

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References

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  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “малыи”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[2] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 106