Malagasy edit

Etymology edit

From earlier *Vesaka ve (literally small Vaisakha), from *Vesaka +‎ masay; the first element is ultimately from Sanskrit वैशाख (vaiśākha).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /sakaˈmasai/, [sakḁˈmasei̯]

Proper noun edit

Sakamasay

  1. (dialectal) August
  2. A town in Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.

References edit

  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 724.