madi
Bikol Central
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editHaitian Creole
editEtymology
editFrom French mardi (“Tuesday”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmadi
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editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Arabic مَادِّيّ (māddiyy).
Adjective
editmadi
Italiot Greek
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editmadi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)
Declension
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Lala (South Africa)
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.
Noun
editmâdi
Louisiana Creole
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmadi
- Alternative form of maddi (“Tuesday”)
Sotho
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.
Noun
editmadi
Descendants
edit- → Phuthi: emalî
Tswana
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.
Noun
editmadi class 6
Etymology 2
editSeemingly 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
editmadi class 6
Ye'kwana
editALIV | madi |
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Brazilian standard | madi |
New Tribes | madi |
Alternative forms
edit- maadi (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmadi
- (Caura River dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus
Derived terms
editReferences
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][1] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 229, 393: “[mạ:di] 'small, white heron' […] ma:di - small white heron”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Also mādi, small white h.; and ahīša, large white h.”
- 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
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