მასე

Georgian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Adverb

მასე • (mase)

  1. so, like that
    Synonyms: ეგრე (egre), მაგრე (magre)
    მასე განაგრძე კარგი ხარ, უუჰ
    mase ganagrʒe ḳargi xar, uuh
    Go on like that you are good. whee.
Derived terms
  • მასეთი (maseti)

See also

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 (1991–1993) “მასე”, in I. Abulaʒe, editor, Leksiḳoni kartuli [Georgian dictionary] (in Georgian), compiled 1685–1716, Tbilisi: Merani, →ISBN
  • 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
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