maty

Uncertain.

maty (plural maties)

1. (archaic) A native house servant in India.
   • 1885, Edward Balfour, Cyclopaedia of India:

     MATY, in the Madras Presidency, a house servant who cleans up

• “maty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• may't

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay (“die; dead; sick; tired (of)”), from Proto-Austronesian *ma-aCay (“die; dead; eclipse of sun or moon”), from Proto-Austronesian *aCay (“death”).

maty

1. dead

• maty in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.tɨ/
• Rhymes: -atɨ
• Syllabification: ma‧ty

maty m animal or m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mat

maty f

1. inflection of mata:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural