madi

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See also: Madi, Madí, mädi, and maḓi

Bikol Central[edit]

Noun[edit]

madí (masculine padi)

  1. female sponsor at a wedding or baptism

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French mardi (Tuesday).

Noun[edit]

madi

  1. Tuesday

See also[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic مَادِّيّ(māddiyy).

Adjective[edit]

madi

  1. material

Italiot Greek[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Medieval Byzantine Greek μάτιν (mátin) which is in turn from the Ancient Greek ὀμμάτιον (ommátion), diminutive of ὄμμα (ómma, eye). Cognate with Greek μάτι (máti).

Noun[edit]

madi n (Greek spelling μάτι, plural madia)

  1. eye

Declension[edit]

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Lala (South Africa)[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *màjíjɪ̀.

Noun[edit]

mâdi

  1. water

Maquiritari[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

madi

  1. (Ye'kwana dialect) the capped heron, Pilherodius pileatus

References[edit]

  • Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “madi”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (in Maquiritari and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 122
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “ma:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 36

Sotho[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun[edit]

madi

  1. blood

Descendants[edit]

  • Phuthi: emalî

Tswana[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *ngàdí.

Noun[edit]

madi class 6

  1. blood

Etymology 2[edit]

Seemingly a wanderwort ultimately from Swahili mali; compare Shona mari, Zulu imali. However, polysemy between "blood" and "money" is common among Khoisan languages, and also found in Bantu in the Kalahari region: Yeyi maropa (blood, money), Mbukushu manyinga (blood, money).

Noun[edit]

madi class 6

  1. money