madi
Bikol Central Edit
Noun Edit
madí (masculine padi)
Haitian Creole Edit
Etymology Edit
From French mardi (“Tuesday”).
Noun Edit
madi
See also Edit
Indonesian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Arabic مَادِّيّ (māddiyy).
Adjective Edit
madi
Italiot Greek Edit
Etymology Edit
From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, “eye”). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).
Noun Edit
madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)
Declension Edit
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Lala (South Africa) Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.
Noun Edit
mâdi
Maquiritari Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- (De'kwana) maadi
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
madi
- (Ye'kwana dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus
References Edit
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Maquiritari and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ma:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36
Sotho Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.
Noun Edit
madi
Descendants Edit
- → Phuthi: emalî
Tswana Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.
Noun Edit
madi class 6
Etymology 2 Edit
Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (“blood, money”), Mbukushu manyinga (“blood, money”).
Noun Edit
madi class 6