Sakamasay
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
Proper noun edit
Sakamasay
- (dialectal) August
- A town in Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.
References edit
- ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, , page 724.