mažas
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Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mãžas m (feminine mažà, neuter mãža) stress pattern 4
Declension[edit]
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of mažas
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “mažas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 380