mažas
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *maźas, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”), with an inverted semantic shift from "big" > "small".[1] Cognates include Latvian mazs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmaːʒɐs]
Declension
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
References
- Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “mažas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 380
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