Sakamasay

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Malagasy

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Etymology

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From earlier *Vesaka ve (literally “small Vaisakha”), from *Vesaka +‎ masay; the first element is ultimately from Sanskrit वैशाख (vaiśākha).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sakaˈmasai/, [sakḁˈmasei̯]

Proper noun

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Sakamasay

  1. (dialectal) August
  2. A town in Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar.

References

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  1. ^ Alexander Adelaar (2009) “Loanwords in Malagasy”, in Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor, editors, Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, page 724.
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