მასე

Georgian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mase]
• Hyphenation: მა‧სე

Etymology 1

Adverb

მასე • (mase)

1. so, like that

   მასე განაგრძე კარგი ხარ, უუჰ

   mase ganagrʒe ḳargi xar, uuh

   Go on like that you are good. whee.

Synonyms

• ეგრე (egre)
• მაგრე (magre)

Derived terms

• მასეთი (maseti)

See also

• ისე (ise)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Georgian-Zan *mas- (“fishing-net”). Cognate with Mingrelian მოსა (mosa), Laz მოსა (mosa, “net”).

Noun

მასე • (mase) (plural მასეები)

1. (obsolete) (sea-going) fishing net

   Synonym: ბადე (bade)

References

• Orbeliani, Sulxan-Saba (1685–1716) “მასე”, in S. Iordanišvili, editor, Siṭq̇vis ḳona kartuli, romel ars leksiḳoni [Collection of Georgian words, that is a dictionary]‎^[1], Tbilisi: Georgian SSR print, published 1949, page 195
• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 116
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 280